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

Every metre of distance between two chips adds a nanosecond, one billionth of a second, to the processing time.

From BBC • Sep. 22, 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

The intense, laserlike x-rays are siphoned off into 14 beamlines that scientists will use to image materials and biological structures at atomic to nanometer scales and take snapshots of chemical reactions over nanosecond time frames.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 22, 2024

Holly managed to extricate her fingers a nanosecond before they snapped like brittle spaghetti.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer