microsecond
microsecond
Definition
micro·sec·ond (mī′krō sek′ənd)
microsecond
Usage Examples
Preposition: after
- bang: Such a nuclear plasma might have existed in the very early universe only microseconds after the big bang.
Converse of object
- take: Each load takes about 1 microsecond, faster than the CPU can write the 8-bit value.
- last: The pulse produced in the modulator has a voltage greater than 10,000 volts and lasts about 1 microsecond.
Adjective modifier
- few: Very short pulse durations of the order of a few microseconds may be obtained with this circuit.
- several: The protein itself, however, folds to perfection in several microseconds.
- exact: With so many packets flying around the internet, some of them arrive at routers at the exact same microsecond.
- near: Using the board clock an application can tell the current moment to the nearest microsecond.
- second: Attributes: year, month, day, hour, minute, second, microsecond, and tzinfo.
- same: With so many packets flying around the internet, some of them arrive at routers at the exact same microsecond.
Modifies a noun
- resolution: It reprograms the timer chip to take microsecond resolution, and it is 200-300 times more accurate than the Crt.Delay routine.
- precision: EPSG claims that EPL is is the only real-time Ethernet protocol to deliver microsecond precision.
- pulse: Triplet state absorption is also a significant problem under microsecond pulse length operation.
- accuracy: Timing has been improved to microsecond accuracy for tighter playback.
- delay: Their only effect is to cause a 13 microsecond delay in execution.
- operation: Triplet state absorption is also a significant problem under microsecond pulse length operation.
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