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.
Browse dictionary entries near millisecond
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