ultrashort
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of ultrashort
Example Sentences
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If an investor is choosing between a money-market ETF and an ultrashort bond fund, Kashner says investors need to look at the holdings, as some ultrashort bond ETFs may have a degree of credit risk.
From Barron's • Oct. 15, 2025
"We measure very fast fluctuations and have developed a method with which fluctuations can still be detected on the ultrashort time scale of femtoseconds," says experimental physicist Sebastian Gönnenwein.
From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2023
They placed this miniature city of metamaterials in the two-laser setup, then excited the towers with repeated ultrashort pulses.
From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2023
The photons were contained in ultrashort laser pulses lasting just just 150 femtoseconds and were entangled by passing them through two so-called nonlinear optical crystals.
From Scientific American • Oct. 25, 2022
The municipal money-market fund yield today is exactly zero, and the ultrashort bond fund pays 0.28 percent.
From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2021
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