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  2. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    nanosecond: ns One billionth of one second 1 ns: The time needed to execute one machine cycle by a 1 GHz microprocessor 1 ns: The time light takes to travel 30 cm (11.811 in) 10 −6: microsecond: μs One millionth of one second 1 μs: The time needed to execute one machine cycle by an Intel 80186 microprocessor 2.2 μs: The lifetime of a muon

  3. Metric time - Wikipedia

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    Metric time is the measure of time intervals using the metric system. The modern SI system defines the second as the base unit of time, and forms multiples and submultiples with metric prefixes such as kiloseconds and milliseconds. Other units of time – minute, hour, and day – are accepted for use with SI, but are not part of it

  4. Nanosecond - Wikipedia

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    A nanosecond (ns) is a unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one billionth of a second, that is, ⁠ 1 / 1 000 000 000 ⁠ of a second, or 10 −9 seconds. The term combines the SI prefix nano- indicating a 1 billionth submultiple of an SI unit (e.g. nanogram, nanometre , etc.) and second , the primary unit of time in ...

  5. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    1.44 minutes, or 86.4 seconds. Also marketed as a ".beat" by the Swatch corporation. moment: 1/40 solar hour (90 s on average) Medieval unit of time used by astronomers to compute astronomical movements, length varies with the season. [4] Also colloquially refers to a brief period of time. centiday 0.01 d (1 % of a day) 14.4 minutes, or 864 ...

  6. Timestamp - Wikipedia

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    17:30:23 — time of day in an afternoon; 123478382 ns — the number of nanoseconds since boot; 17 minutes — an arbitrary minute counter that increments every 1 minute since its last manual "reset" event; Sequence number: 21 — a unitless counter that indicates only the relative order of events; this is event #21, which comes after 20 and ...

  7. Millisecond - Wikipedia

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    1 millisecond – time taken for light to travel 204.19 km in a single mode fiber optic cable for a wavelength of 1550 nm (frequency: 193 THz). 1 millisecond – nerve conduction velocity (neuron signal firing) happens on the order of milliseconds; 1.000692286 millisecondstime taken for light to travel 300 km in a vacuum

  8. Nano- - Wikipedia

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    A nanosecond (ns) is a unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one billionth of a second, that is, ⁠ 1 / 1 000 000 000 ⁠ of a second, or 10 −9 seconds. The term combines the SI prefix nano- indicating a 1 billionth submultiple of an SI unit (e.g. nanogram, nanometre , etc.) and second , the primary unit of time in ...

  9. Jiffy (time) - Wikipedia

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    Jiffy values for various Linux versions and platforms have typically varied between about 1 ms and 10 ms, with 10 ms (1/100 s) reported as an increasingly common standard in the Jargon File. [ 11 ] Stratus VOS (Virtual Operating System) uses a jiffy of 1/65,536 second to express date and time (number of jiffies elapsed since 1 January 1980 00: ...