nanoseconds

plural of nanosecond

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Recent Examples of nanoseconds China is only six months behind—or four, or nine, or perhaps mere nanoseconds. — Chang Che, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2026 Instead, the past week has been spent relitigating the final nanoseconds of the Wolverines’ 13-12 victory against Western Michigan. — Austin Meek, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026 Round-trip latency could fall from the microsecond range to several hundred nanoseconds, representing a reduction of up to an order of magnitude. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026 Such as approach had its own speed limits – at the slowest, nanoseconds (billionths) and at the fastest, picoseconds (trillionths). — New Atlas, 20 Aug. 2026 Xona expects its satellites to eventually deliver a timing reference accurate to within 10 nanoseconds. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 16 July 2026 Atom Power’s digital breaker eliminates this risk, by cutting the power in nanoseconds or microseconds. — Charlotte Observer, 11 Mar. 2026 These shifting patterns subtly alter when the pulses arrive, introducing timing delays on the order of tens of nanoseconds, the statement says. — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 16 Jan. 2026 The kids got bored with it in nanoseconds, but word got out in the blue jay community that a peanut paradise had sprung up in our yard and to come on over! — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nanoseconds
Noun
  • Still, the episode might’ve been better at a cable or streaming length, with 15-20 more minutes to play with.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Drummond flirted with a preseason triple-double and posted eight points, nine rebounds, four assists and two steals in 20 minutes.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 9 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The confusion came in the final seconds of OT when New York trailed and Angel Reese was at the foul line.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Same lethal drug, different outcomes After the pentobarbital was administered Wednesday night, Howard took a couple of breaths and gasped, the AP reported, before making snoring sounds that grew quiet within 30 seconds.
    — Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Gabe wears a bracelet containing some of her final heartbeats and her fingerprint.
    — Ashley Sharp, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Others include Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s light and sound installation Pulse Topology (2021), installed in 2023, in which visitors’ heartbeats inform the pulse of lights hanging overhead.
    — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • But moments before the nosedive, passengers seated near the front of the plane heard sounds of a fight inside the cockpit, said passenger Daniel Schlichter, who was seated in the second row.
    — SAM MEDNICK, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Those moments in people’s careers are the beginning of feeling truly confident about yourself.
    — Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2026

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“Nanoseconds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nanoseconds. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.

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