MILLISECOND

Millisecond

A millisecond is a thousandth of a second. Its symbol is ms. One millisecond is to one second as one second is to 16.67 minutes.

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millisecond

Noun

  1. One one-thousandth of a second. Symbol: ms
    The suggestion that pulsars were rotating neutron stars was put forth independently by Thomas Gold and Franco Pacini in 1968, and was soon proven beyond reasonable doubt by the discovery of a pulsar with a very short (33-millisecond) pulse period in the Crab nebula.


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