NANOSECOND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nanosecond mean? 

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

1. one billionth (10^-9) of a second; one thousandth of a microsecond

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NANOSECOND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One billionth (10^-9) of a second; one thousandth of a microsecond

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "nanosecond"):

picosecond (one trillionth (10^-12) of a second; one thousandth of a nanosecond)

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

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