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Kilosecond — A kilosecond is 1000 seconds (16 minutes, 40 seconds), so there are 86.4 kiloseconds in a 24 hour day. The second is the International System of Units (SI) base unit of time, combine with the prefix kilo which means 1000, results in the… … Wikipedia
kilosecond — (ks or ksec) a unit of time equal to 1000 seconds (16 minutes 40 seconds). Although it is never used in ordinary life, the kilosecond has many uses in science. One day is equal to 86.4 kiloseconds … Dictionary of units of measurement
ks — • kilosecond … Dictionary of medical acronyms & abbreviations
ks — kilosecond * * * KS abbr Kaposi s sarcoma * * * Kaposi sarcoma … Medical dictionary
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
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
Orders of magnitude (time) — Contents 1 Seconds 2 See also 3 Years 4 See also 5 Footnotes … Wikipedia
Day — For other uses, see Day (disambiguation). Water, Rabbit, and Deer: three of the 20 day symbols in the Aztec calendar, from the Aztec calendar stone. A day is a unit of time, commonly defined as an interval equal to 24 hours … Wikipedia
SI prefix — SI prefixes in everyday use Text Symbol Factor tera T 1000000000000 giga G 1000000 … 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
