microsecond

Example Sentences

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"If it's a precise welding machine and it needs to move exactly this much, that has to happen within a microsecond or a millisecond, and you can't do that in a best effort way."

From Reuters

Every finger flick, every hip thrust, every hair flip was choreographed to the microsecond.

From Los Angeles Times

The new Cornell study addresses something different: how we perceive the passage of microseconds.

From New York Times

Time on Earth is precisely tracked by atomic clocks, but synchronizing time on the moon is tricky because clocks run faster there, gaining around 56 microseconds, or millionths of a second, per day.

From New York Times

These are then translated into a Supply and Appropriations Bill, which will be whizzed through the Commons in a couple of microseconds on Thursday.

From BBC