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

A key element to the experiment was installing a microchannel plate ion detector to accurately time the moment of impact down to the nanosecond.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2023

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

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer