microsecond

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Then, he recalled, "they would play the points" in endless takes -- with or without the ball -- repeating choreography timed "down to the microsecond".

From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025

They’re executing millions of trades on microsecond timescales using signals derived from petabytes of data.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 15, 2025

"If your mind drifts for even 30 seconds, even a microsecond, it can be dangerous for everyone on the train."

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2025

They then published in 2020 a paper in Nature showing how bolometers made of graphene can shorten readout times to well below a microsecond.

From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2024

He hadn’t been missed, he said, because the Tralfamadorians had taken him through a time warp, so that he could be on Tralfamadore for years, and still be away from Earth for only a microsecond.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut