Nanosecond

A Nanosecond is a SI Unit of time or angular degrees that corresponds to 1 × 10^-9 seconds.

• AKA: ns.
• Example(s):
  • 1 nanosecond = 1 × 10^-3 microseconds,
  • 1,000 nanoseconds = 1 microsecond,
  • 1 nanosecond = 1 × 10^-6 milisecond,
  • 1,000,000 nanoseconds = 1 milisecond.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Hour,
  • Minute,
  • Second,
  • Microsecond,
  • Milisecond,
  • Picosecond.
• See: Nanometer, Electronics, SI Unit, Telecommunications, Laser.

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References

2019

• (Wikipedia, 2019) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanosecond Retrieved:2019-2-10.
  • A nanosecond (ns) is an SI unit of time equal to one thousand-millionth of a second (or one billionth of a second), that is, ¹/_{1,000,000,000} of a second, or 10seconds.

    The term combines the prefix nano- with the basic unit for one-sixtieth of a minute.

    A nanosecond is equal to 1000 picoseconds or  microsecond. Time units ranging between 10and 10seconds are typically expressed as tens or hundreds of nanoseconds.

    Time units of this granularity are commonly encountered in telecommunications, pulsed lasers, and reliated aspects of electronics.

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