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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation millisecond
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- abbreviation
millisecond
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- noun one thousandth (10^-3) of a second
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Examples
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First, the very slow response time (600 msec, which is slower than eink) prevents it from displaying full motion video.
MAKE Magazine 2009
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Number of hops were 11. and roundtrip time was 184 msec
McCain Campaign Sheds Crocodile Tears About Media To Build Up Palin's Speech Tonight 2009
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This decision came approximately 200 msec before movement, hundreds of msec after onset of the readiness potential.
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They found that electrical activity preceded finger movement by 800 msec, calling this activity the readiness potential.
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This decision came approximately 200 msec before movement, hundreds of msec after onset of the readiness potential.
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They found that electrical activity preceded finger movement by 800 msec, calling this activity the readiness potential.
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But the striking discovery is that while the RP is activated 550 msec before the action, the subject's awareness of their decision to act occurs only 150-200 msec before the action.
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The chimp, Ayumu, can in one brief glance of 210 msec (faster than you can blink!) memorize five numbers on a screen and then tap them in the right order even though the numbers themselves have disappeared from view.
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Functions: start (int msec): starts the timer with msec as the interval start (): starts the timer with the default interval stop (): stops the timer
KDE TechBase - Recent changes [en] Renophaston 2010
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The combination enables inlet system response times of less the 150 msec with measurement speeds of up to 500 data points per second over an entire 7 decade dynamic range.
D Mag - News 2010
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