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Second — This article is about the unit of time. For other uses, see Second (disambiguation). A light flashing approximately once per second. The second (SI unit symbol: s; informal abbreviation: sec) is a unit of measurement of time, and is the… … Wikipedia
Orders of magnitude (time) — Contents 1 Seconds 2 See also 3 Years 4 See also 5 Footnotes … Wikipedia
Unix billennium — The Unix billennium is the point in time represented by a Unix time value of 109: 01:46:40 UTC on September 9 2001. Some programs which stored timestamps using a text representation encountered sorting errors, as in a text sort times after the… … Wikipedia
1 E9 s — To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 109 seconds (a gigasecond ) and 1010 seconds (31.7 years and 317 years). See also times of other orders of magnitude*Shorter times *35 years (1.10 times; 109 s)… … Wikipedia
Millisecond — Horizontal logarithmic scale marked with units of time A millisecond (from milli and second; abbreviation: ms) is a thousandth (1/1,000) of a second.[1] 10 milliseconds (a hundredth of a secon … Wikipedia
Metric time — is the measure of time interval using the metric system, which defines the second as the base unit of time, and multiple and submultiple units formed with metric prefixes, such as kiloseconds and milliseconds. It does not define the time of day,… … Wikipedia
Decimal time — French decimal clock from the time of the French Revolution Decimal time is the representation of the time of day using units which are decimally related. This term is often used to refer specifically to French Revolutionary Time, which divides… … Wikipedia
Megasecond — For historical events in the megasecond range see timeline of modern history. For a list half lives in this timescale, see: List of isotopes by half life. A megasecond (symbol: Ms) is 1 million seconds, or roughly 11.6 days. There are roughly… … Wikipedia
Microsecond — A microsecond is an SI unit of time equal to one millionth (10−6) of a second. Its symbol is µs. A microsecond is equal to 1000 nanoseconds or 1/1000 millisecond. Because the next SI unit is 1000 times larger, measurements of 10−5 and 10−4… … Wikipedia
Nanosecond — A nanosecond (ns) is one billionth of a second (10−9 s). One nanosecond is to one second as one second is to 31.7 years. The word nanosecond is formed by the prefix nano and the unit second. Its symbol is ns. A nanosecond is equal to 1000… … Wikipedia
