Millisecond

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A millisecond (from milli- and second; abbreviation: ms) is a thousandth (10⁻³ or ¹/_1,000) of a second.^[1]

10 milliseconds (a hundredth of a second) are called a centisecond.

To help compare orders of magnitude of different times, this page lists times between 10⁻³ seconds and 10⁰ seconds (1 millisecond and one second). See also times of other orders of magnitude.

Half-lives

For a list half-lives in this timescale, see: List of isotopes by half-life

See also

• Second
• Microsecond

References

External links

Look up millisecond in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• Neutrinos to Give High-Frequency Traders the Millisecond Edge (NIST)