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millisecond Definition

milli·sec·ond (-sek′ənd)

noun

one thousandth of a second: abbrev. ms

millisecond Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • take: Older people of a similar age will take 396 milliseconds.
  • last: Yet they last only a few milliseconds to a few minutes.
  • add: We add 5000 milliseconds to this to specify the instant five seconds from now.
  • wait: The kick down is amazing; it kind of waits a millisecond as if it's saying to you are you sure?

Adjective modifier

  • unsigned: RWWaitStatus enqueue ( const RWRunnable& runnable, unsigned long milliseconds ); Passes a runnable instance to the server for execution.
  • few: Yet they last only a few milliseconds to a few minutes.
  • several: All this has been done in dynamic mode for the most part and with delays on several milliseconds at most.
  • long: RWWaitStatus enqueue ( const RWRunnable& runnable, unsigned long milliseconds ); Passes a runnable instance to the server for execution.
  • last: I let it fly and stripped fast, the GT turned, went for the fly and turned away at the last millisecond.
  • first: This is done by zeroing the first millisecond of the input impulse response ( after the DC offset has been removed ).

Modifies a noun

  • pulsar: At the heart of the cluster is the first millisecond pulsar to be discovered, its neutron star rotating once every 11 milliseconds.
  • timescale: A very recent development is the possibility of imaging on the millisecond timescale.
  • precision: Most would agree that, provided great care is taken, many are capable of millisecond timing precision.
  • accuracy: On a computer where millisecond timing accuracy is not available, timeout is rounded up to the nearest legal value available on that system.
  • response: For many printing, synchronizing and machine tool applications using fieldbuses with millisecond responses, Ethernet is not yet an option.
  • value: The time of the day at which daylight saving time starts or ends is specified by a millisecond value within the day.

Noun used with modifier

  • millis: Parameters: millis - wait at most millis milliseconds.
  • delay: If delay is positive, then read blocks for delay milliseconds, and returns ERR if there is still no input.
  • timeout: Parameters: timeout - If positive, block for up timeout milliseconds while waiting for a reference to be added to this queue.
  • interval: All that's left is for us to work out how far the image moves in interval milliseconds.

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