MILLISECOND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does millisecond mean? 

• MILLISECOND (noun)
  The noun MILLISECOND has 1 sense:

1. one thousandth (10^-3) of a second

  Familiarity information: MILLISECOND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILLISECOND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One thousandth (10^-3) of a second

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

millisecond; msec

Hypernyms ("millisecond" is a kind of...):

time unit; unit of time (a unit for measuring time periods)

Meronyms (parts of "millisecond"):

microsecond (one millionth (10^-6) of a second; one thousandth of a millisecond)

Holonyms ("millisecond" is a part of...):

s; sec; second (1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites)

 Context examples 

When glutamate binds the receptor on the outside, the receptor changes shape and opens within milliseconds.

(Structural states of a brain receptor revealed, NIH)

The team discovered that the simultaneous ripple activity often happened a few milliseconds before a patient would correctly remember a word pair.

(Our brains may ripple before remembering, National Institutes of Health)

Since MEG can distinguish brain activity on a millisecond scale, the researchers were able to match areas of brain activity with different time patterns.

(How the brain pays attention to faces and places, NIH)

The time in milliseconds between the application of the excitation pulse and the recording of the peak echo signal.

(Echo Time, NCI Thesaurus)

These thrusters fire in tiny pulses, or "puffs," lasting mere milliseconds, to subtly rotate the spacecraft so that its antenna points at our planet.

(Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years, NASA)

PEF records the maximum flow that can be sustained for 10 milliseconds on forced expiration starting from full inflation of the lungs.

(Peak Expiratory Flow, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by a dysrhythmia with a delay in the time required for the conduction of an electrical impulse through the atrioventricular (AV) node beyond 0.2 seconds; prolongation of the PR interval greater than 200 milliseconds.

(AV Block First Degree, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

The neural activity in the inferior frontal junction typically appeared 20 milliseconds before activity in the FFA or PPA.

(How the brain pays attention to faces and places, NIH)

On Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017, Voyager engineers fired up the four TCM thrusters for the first time in 37 years and tested their ability to orient the spacecraft using 10-millisecond pulses.

(Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years, NASA)