A millisecond isn't long enough for the blink of an eye, but a few milliseconds may determine the winner of a swim race or a hundred-yard dash. With the ever-increasing speed of modern technology, even a millisecond has started to seem a little sluggish; computer operations are now measured in nanoseconds—that is, billionths of a second.
Examples of millisecond in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebAccording to Qualcomm, the makers of the Quest 3’s GPU, the latency is as low as 12 milliseconds.—Anja Webb, Parents, 14 June 2024 Of course, the decision-making algorithm would still need a few additional milliseconds to compute a reaction.—Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024 To break it into discs one, two, and three, someone has to look it up or think an extra millisecond.—Justin Curto, Vulture, 7 May 2024 Typically this happens within about a meter, or around one millisecond.—Luke Caldwell, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for millisecond
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