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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.
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But in the milliseconds after Portugal and Barcelona forward Kika Nazareth picks up the ball in England’s half and sashays forward, Clinton is on the back foot.
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Megan Feringa, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025
There's a pair of HDMI 2.0 ports around back for cabling media sources, with input lag reported as 33.4 milliseconds – which likely strikes gaming off the agenda.
—Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 15 Feb. 2025
But now an international research team has used laser light differently to induce magnetism in picoseconds, and in a first, initiated a magnetic state that lasted for milliseconds.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2025
The screen size and resolution remained unchanged, but the new E Ink technology improved scribble speeds using the pen stylus – with latency reported to be under 30 milliseconds.
—Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 14 Feb. 2025
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Megan Feringa, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025
There's a pair of HDMI 2.0 ports around back for cabling media sources, with input lag reported as 33.4 milliseconds – which likely strikes gaming off the agenda.
—Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 15 Feb. 2025
But now an international research team has used laser light differently to induce magnetism in picoseconds, and in a first, initiated a magnetic state that lasted for milliseconds.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2025
The screen size and resolution remained unchanged, but the new E Ink technology improved scribble speeds using the pen stylus – with latency reported to be under 30 milliseconds.
—Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 14 Feb. 2025
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“Millisecond.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/millisecond. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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millisecond
noun
mil·li·sec·ond
ˈmil-ə-ˌsek-ənd 
also -ənt
: one thousandth of a second
Medical Definition
millisecond
noun
mil·li·sec·ond
ˈmil-ə-ˌsek-ənd, -ənt
: one thousandth of a second
—abbreviation ms, msec
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