nanosecond

See also: nano-second

English

Etymology

From nano- +‎ second.

Pronunciation

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Noun

nanosecond (plural nanoseconds)

1. (metrology) An SI unit of time equal to 10⁻⁹ seconds. Symbol: ns

   Synonym: (abbreviation) ns

   • 2023 March 26, Alex Hern, quoting Michael Kagan, “Cryptocurrencies add nothing useful to society, says chip-maker Nvidia”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     “We were heavily involved in also trading: people on Wall Street were buying our stuff to save a few nanoseconds on the wire, the banks were doing crazy things like pulling the fibres under the Hudson taut to make them a little big shorter, to save a few nanoseconds between their datacentre and the stock exchange,” he said.

Translations

measure of time

• Catalan: nanosegon m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 納秒 / 纳秒 (zh) (nàmiǎo)

• Czech: nanosekunda f
• Danish: nanosekund
• Dutch: nanoseconde (nl)
• Estonian: nanosekund
• Finnish: nanosekunti (fi)
• French: nanoseconde (fr) f
• Galician: nanosegundo m
• German: Nanosekunde (de) f
• Hungarian: nanoszekundum (hu)
• Icelandic: nanósekúnda f
• Italian: nanosecondo (it) m
• Japanese: ナノ秒 (ja) (nanobyō)
• Lithuanian: nanosekundė f
• Malay: nanosaat
• Polish: nanosekunda (pl) f
• Portuguese: nanossegundo (pt) m
• Romanian: nanosecundă (ro)
• Russian: наносеку́нда (ru) f (nanosekúnda)
• Slovak: nanosekunda f, nanosekunda f
• Spanish: nanosegundo (es) m
• Swedish: nanosekund c
• Telugu: నానోసెకను (nānōsekanu)
• Turkish: nanosaniye sg

See also

• microsecond