nanosecond
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A nanosecond is the time it takes for light to travel about one foot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
The first half of the show unpacks the sensory systems that leads people to experience flavor in a nanosecond.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2024
Time is currently measured on Earth by hundreds of atomic clocks stationed around our planet which measure the changing energy state of atoms to record time to the nanosecond.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2024
In experiments run by the team, acoustic exciton-polarons in Re6Se8Cl2 moved fast -- twice as fast as electrons in silicon -- and crossed several microns of the sample in less than a nanosecond.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023
The white-hot reaction devoured the surrounding oxygen in a nanosecond and surged down the path of least resistance, which was, of course, immediately after LEP Commander Root.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
