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Millisecond
| millisecond | |
|---|---|
| Unit system | SI |
| Unit of | time |
| Symbol | ms |
| Conversions | |
| 1 ms in ... | ... is equal to ... |
| SI units | 0.001 s |
A millisecond (from milli- and second; symbol: ms) is a unit of time in the International System of Units equal to one thousandth (0.001 or 10−3 or 1/1000) of a second[1][2] or 1000 microseconds.
A millisecond is to one second, as one second is to approximately 16.67 minutes.
A unit of 10 milliseconds may be called a centisecond, and one of 100 milliseconds a decisecond, but these names are rarely used.[3] To help compare orders of magnitude of different times, this page lists times between 10−3 seconds and 100 seconds (1 millisecond and one second). See also times of other orders of magnitude.
- ^ "Units: M". How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement.
- ^ New Oxford Dictionary
- ^ Google nGrams shows them as much less than 0.5% of "millisecond" nGrams comparison of word frequency of centisecond and decisecond vs. millisecond
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