microsecond
noun
Origin of microsecond
Related Words for microsecond
millisecond, nanosecond, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, moment, twinklingExamples from the Web for microsecond
Contemporary Examples of microsecond
Seemingly a microsecond later, the word came down that the NFL was suspending him indefinitely.
These over-sized, super powered, high-tech spark plugs deliver an intense electric pulse that is precise down to the microsecond.
If combustion occurs within a battery, says Boeing, it would be snuffed out in a microsecond for lack of oxygen.
Historical Examples of microsecond
Microsecond by slow microsecond the Vangs grew and grew and grew.
Masters of SpaceEdward Elmer Smith
No chart can keep up to the microsecond on these asteroid movements.
Eight Keys to EdenMark Irvin Clifton
Icarus will be within the star only a matter of a microsecond.
The Variable ManPhilip K. Dick
Force of a hydrogen bomb—forty thousand innocent people gone in a microsecond.
--And Devious the Line of DutyTom Godwin
Within its certain, limited timing-capacity, it could establish or break a contact within the thousandth of a microsecond.
Talents, IncorporatedWilliam Fitzgerald Jenkins