nanosecond

How To Use nanosecond In A Sentence

• Not for one nanosecond did he believe that she would let him down. Times, Sunday Times
• I swerved at the last nanosecond and almost pitched myself ass over teakettle. Mercy Kill
• The second limitation is the nanosecond timescale of the simulations.
• Using the computer's clock, each file (composed of n random values) was individually labeled in nanoseconds at the moment it was generated.
• ** Though a nanosecond has a technical definition as a millionth of a second, PT has always been partial to the folk definition: A nanosecond is the length of time between when the light in front of you goes green and the car behind you honks its horn. Who will replace Van Blake?
• But even before you notice that an avalanche is racing towards you, the motion detectors built into your Life Bags Xtreme® automatically trigger rapid inflation so that in nanoseconds you are enveloped in a protective bubble stocked with supplies to last weeks. Wearable Anti-Avalanche Homes
• Sometimes my sarcasm/irony-reader goes a little kerflooey, so forgive me for even contemplating for a nanosecond the idea that this may possibly maybe be real. This IS A Joke, Isn't It?
• Stanley's poetry is always lush, frequently visionary, and sometimes sublime: It lights upon existential nanoseconds without affixing itself so doggedly to any one natural phenomenon that the presence and significance of the human is diminished a claim sometimes leveled against younger poets working in the New Minimalism, a kissing cousin of Slow Poetry. Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
• Second, no fusion event has been observed with a fusion time between 350 nanoseconds and 2 microseconds.
• But stabilize the matter-antimatter mix into a substance called positronium — as a couple of UC Riverside physicists did for a record-breaking 100 nanoseconds — and you're on your way to turning that jolt into a focused, ultrapowerful laser. WTF?! The Positronium Superlaser Is Almost Complete. Muh-ha-ha-ha!