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  2. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    The amount of time light takes to travel one Planck length. quectosecond: 10 −30 s: One nonillionth of a second. rontosecond: 10 −27 s: One octillionth of a second. yoctosecond: 10 −24 s: One septillionth of a second. jiffy (physics) 3 × 10 −24 s: The amount of time light takes to travel one fermi (about the size of a nucleon) in a ...

  3. Metric time - Wikipedia

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    The word "minute" comes from the Latin pars minuta prima, meaning "first small part", and "second" from pars minuta secunda or "second small part". Angular measure also uses sexagesimal units; there, it is the degree that is subdivided into minutes and seconds, while in time, it is the hour.

  4. Minute - Wikipedia

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    Minute is a unit of time defined as equal to 60 seconds. [1] One hour contains 60 minutes. [2] Although not a unit in the International System of Units (SI), the minute is accepted for use in the SI. [1] The SI symbol for minutes is min (without a dot). The prime symbol ′ is also sometimes used informally to denote minutes. [3]

  5. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    3.6 ks: The length of one hour (h), the time for the minute hand of a clock to cycle once around the face, approximately 1/24 of one mean solar day 7.2 ks (2 h): The typical length of feature films 35.73 ks: the rotational period of planet Jupiter, fastest planet to rotate 38.0196 ks: rotational period of Saturn, second shortest rotational period

  6. Metric prefix - Wikipedia

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    A metric prefix is a unit prefix that precedes a basic unit of measure to indicate a multiple or submultiple of the unit. All metric prefixes used today are decadic.Each prefix has a unique symbol that is prepended to any unit symbol.

  7. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    3.78 cm – amount of distance the Moon moves away from Earth each year [113] 4.3 cm – minimum diameter of a golf ball [114] 5 cm – usual diameter of a chicken egg; 5 cm – height of a hummingbird, the smallest-known bird; 5.08 cm – 2 inches, 5.5 × 5.5 × 5.5 cm – dimensions of a 3x3x3 Rubik's cube; 6.1 cm – average height of an apple

  8. Minutes - Wikipedia

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    Generally, minutes begin with the name of the body holding the meeting (e.g., a board) and may also include the place, date, list of people present, and the time that the chair called the meeting to order. [15] Since the primary function of minutes is to record the decisions made, all official decisions must be included.

  9. Minute (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A minute is a unit used to measure time. Minute or minutes may also refer to: Minute of arc, a unit used to measure angles; Minute, a French far-right newspaper; Minute (basketball), a statistic in basketball; Minutes, the document in which the proceedings of a court or a meeting are recorded; Minutes, a 1984 album by Elkie Brooks