| word | nanosecond |
|---|---|
| definition | One billionth of a second. |
| eg_sentence | When he finally asked if she would marry him, it took her about a nanosecond to say yes. |
| explanation | The nonserious use of nanosecond is probably much more common than the proper technical use. In measurement terms such as nanosecond, nanogram, and nanometer, nano- means “billionth”; in other kinds of words, its meaning isn't quite so precise. In computers, the speed of reading and writing to random access memory (RAM) is measured in nanoseconds. By comparison, the speed of reading or writing to a hard drive or a CD-ROM player, or for information to travel over the Internet, is measured in milliseconds (thousandths of a second), which are a million times longer than nanoseconds |
| IPA | ˈnænoʊˌsɛkənd |
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