nanosecond en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos)bor. Latin nānusbor. English nano- English second English nanosecond From nano- + second.
Meanings
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An SI unit of time equal to 10⁻⁹ seconds. Symbol: ns
Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond
Holonyms: microsecond < millisecond < 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
“We were heavily involved in also trading: people on Wall Street were buying our stuff to save a few nanoseconds on the wire, the banks were doing crazy things like pulling the fibres under the Hudson taut to make them a little big shorter, to save a few nanoseconds between their datacentre and the stock exchange,” he said.
2023 March 26, Alex Hern, quoting Michael Kagan, “Cryptocurrencies add nothing useful to society, says chip-maker Nvidia”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2023:Since the tiny magnetic domains have to travel only submolecular distances, it is possible to read and write magnetic regions with different polarization as quickly as a single nanosecond — far faster than existing storage technologies.
2007 September 11, John Markoff, “Redefining the Architecture of Memory”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020:
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(figuratively) An extremely short period of time; an instant.
I just know that the nanosecond I take my eyes off my phone, somebody's going to steal it.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| nanoseconds | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
subnanosecond · light-nanosecond
Relateds
Translations (25)
et nanosekund (measure of time) · ja ナノ秒 (measure of time) · cs nanosekunda (measure of time) · tr nanosaniye (measure of time) · is nanósekúnda (measure of time) · ca nanosegon (measure of time) · ms nanosaat (measure of time) · sv nanosekund (measure of time) · gl nanosegundo (measure of time) · fr nanoseconde (measure of time) · cmn 納秒 /纳秒 (measure of time) · pl nanosekunda (measure of time) · fi nanosekunti (measure of time) · sk nanosekunda (measure of time) · ru наносеку́нда (measure of time) · de Nanosekunde (measure of time) · pt nanossegundo (measure of time) · da nanosekund (measure of time) · te నానోసెకను (measure of time) · hu nanoszekundum (measure of time) · ro nanosecundă (measure of time) · es nanosegundo (measure of time) · lt nanosekundė (measure of time) · nl nanoseconde (measure of time) · it nanosecondo (measure of time)