millisecond
noun
mil·li·sec·ond
| \ ˈmi-lə-ˌse-kənd
, -kənt\
, -kənt\
Definition of millisecond
: one thousandth of a second
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While a typical card transaction takes three or four seconds, Amazon's new tech can process the charge in less than 300 milliseconds, says the report. — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, "Why Amazon Wants to Scan Your Hands," 4 Sep. 2019 But Williams discovered and exploited an astonishing loophole: Medicare doesn’t check NPI applications for accuracy — a process that should take mere minutes or, if automated, a millisecond. — Marshall Allen, ProPublica, "Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You.," 19 July 2019 The smart goggles can be used by professional swimmers, who need to aggressively monitor their performance down to the millisecond, or by just-for-fun swimmers (pre-teen and older) who want a more connected experience. — Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY, "AR goggles: FORM is sorta like Google Glass, but for swimming," 9 July 2019 That might not seem like much, but mere milliseconds (factoring in the screen’s touch response speed and network ping) could mean the difference between a win and a loss in competitive play. — Cameron Faulkner, The Verge, "Black Shark 2 Pro shows that gaming phones are here to stay," 30 July 2019 And in the league office in New York, senior vice president of officiating Al Riveron and vice president of replay Russell Yurk will remain ready to play judge and jury with the benefit of frame-by-frame millisecond analysis. — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, "Pass-interference calls will be reviewable this season for the 1st time in NFL history: ‘Who knows how this is going to go?'," 31 July 2019 Fast radio bursts are powerful and mysterious millisecond bursts of radio waves. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, "Fast radio burst came from galaxy 7.9 billion light-years away," 2 July 2019 These new systems marry the best machines capabilities—360-degree sensing and millisecond reflexes—with the best of the human brain, such as our ability to come up with novel solutions to unique problems. — Christopher Mims, WSJ, "Self-Driving Cars Have a Problem: Safer Human-Driven Ones," 15 June 2019 These are millisecond-long blips of intense and unexplained radio signals that pop up all over the sky, temporarily outshining radio pulsars in our galaxy despite being perhaps a million times farther away. — Joshua Sokol, WIRED, "Astronomers Think They Can Explain Mysterious Cosmic Bursts," 10 Mar. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'millisecond.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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millisecond
noun
English Language Learners Definition of millisecond
: one thousandth of a second
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millisecond
noun
mil·li·sec·ond
| \ ˈmil-ə-ˌsek-ənd, -ənt
\
\
Medical Definition of millisecond
: one thousandth of a second
—abbreviation ms, msec