millisecond en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈmɪlɪˌsɛkənd/ (Canada, General-American)
- (Texas) audio
- /ˈmɪlɪˌsɛkənd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈmɪləˌsekənd/ (Australia)
- /ˈmɪləˌsɛkənd/ (Canada, General-American)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sm̥- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂ Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes- Proto-Indo-European *-lom Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslom ▲ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂ Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslih₂ Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī Latin mīlleder. French milli- English milli- Old French secondebor. Middle English secunde English second English millisecond From milli- + second.
Meanings
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An SI unit of time equal to 10⁻³ seconds. Symbol: ms
The internal NES clock must accurately measure down to milliseconds for its games to work properly.
2023 December 1, Evelynn Kersting, “GAMES AND TIME”, in University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025, page 11, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2025:We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
2012 January 14, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2012, page 23:The suggestion that pulsars were rotating neutron stars was put forth independently by Thomas Gold and Franco Pacini in 1968, and was soon proven beyond reasonable doubt by the discovery of a pulsar with a very short (33-millisecond) pulse period in the Crab nebula.ᵂ
Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond
Holonyms: centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| milliseconds | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
multimillisecond · millisecond pulsar · submillisecond
Relateds
Translations (37)
pt milissegundo (one one-thousandth of a second) · ht milisgond (one one-thousandth of a second) · nl milliseconde (one one-thousandth of a second) · el μιλιδευτερόλεπτο (one one-thousandth of a second) · fr milliseconde (one one-thousandth of a second) · hu milliszekundum (one one-thousandth of a second) · vi một phần nghìn giây (one one-thousandth of a second) · mt millisekonda (one one-thousandth of a second) · sk milisekunda (one one-thousandth of a second) · hy միլիվայրկյան (one one-thousandth of a second) · it millisecondo (one one-thousandth of a second) · ja ミリセカント (one one-thousandth of a second) · hu ezredmásodperc (one one-thousandth of a second) · ko 밀리세컨드 (one one-thousandth of a second) · tr milisaniye (one one-thousandth of a second) · sv millisekund (one one-thousandth of a second) · ro milisecundă (one one-thousandth of a second) · is millisekúnda (one one-thousandth of a second) · bg ми́лисекунда (one one-thousandth of a second) · es milisegundo (one one-thousandth of a second) · tl milisegundo (one one-thousandth of a second) · de Millisekunde (one one-thousandth of a second) · sl milisekunda (one one-thousandth of a second) · pl milisekunda (one one-thousandth of a second) · da millisekund (one one-thousandth of a second) · fi millisekunti (one one-thousandth of a second) · ko 밀리초 (one one-thousandth of a second) · lt milisekundė (one one-thousandth of a second) · no millisekund (one one-thousandth of a second) · ca mil·lisegon (one one-thousandth of a second) · ru миллисеку́нда (one one-thousandth of a second) · uk мілісеку́нда (one one-thousandth of a second) · ar مِيلِي ثَانِيَة (one one-thousandth of a second) · ka მილისეკუნდი (one one-thousandth of a second) · cmn 毫秒 (one one-thousandth of a second) · cs milisekunda (one one-thousandth of a second) · ja ミリ秒 (one one-thousandth of a second)