Definitions
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- noun A unit of
time equal to 1,000,000,000seconds and with symbol Gs.
Etymologies
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giga- + second
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Examples
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For a moment, Amber looks ancient, far older than her subjective gigasecond of age.
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Welcome to decade the eighth, singularity plus one gigasecond (or maybe more -- nobody's quite sure when, or indeed _if, _ a singularity has been created).
reesetee commented on the word gigasecond
The equivalent of 32 years--sounds so much quicker this way. :-)
February 20, 2007
samwi commented on the word gigasecond
A gigasecond calculator:
http://www.tasktrimmer.com/gigasecond
March 21, 2011