nanosecond
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See also: nano-second
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nanosecond (plural nanoseconds)
- A measure of time equal to one billionth of a second.
- 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.
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measure of time
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