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- noun Plural form of
quadrillionth .
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For Dr. Raskar - who optimistically calls the project "femto photography," using the term for quadrillionths of a second - it is about more than just engineering or science.
NYT > Global Home By JOHN MARKOFF 2011
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For Dr. Raskar - who optimistically calls the project "femto photography," using the term for quadrillionths of a second - it is about more than just engineering or science.
NYT > Home Page By JOHN MARKOFF 2011
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Measurements at trillionths, quadrillionths, quintillionths and sextillionths of a second may ultimately reveal whether the Higgs boson -- the so-called "God particle" -- exists.
Kevin Bermeister: God's Time, Science's Ideal Kevin Bermeister 2011
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Measurements at trillionths, quadrillionths, quintillionths and sextillionths of a second may ultimately reveal whether the Higgs boson -- the so-called "God particle" -- exists.
Kevin Bermeister: God's Time, Science's Ideal Kevin Bermeister 2011
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The Google Android, by contrast, shows three bars out of four only when signal strength is above 200 quadrillionths of a watt.
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For instance, tech Web site AnandTech reported that signal strength as low as 80 quadrillionths of a watt corresponded to four bars.
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IPhoneRoot. com, an independent website for all things iPhone, ran separate tests and concluded that four bars could correspond to signal strength as low as 13 quadrillionths of a watt.
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At the other end of the spectrum, a signal of 10 quadrillionths, or 0.00000000000001, of a watt (a quadrillion is a million billion) could be enough to complete a call.
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The laser, called a femtosecond laser, produces pulses lasting only a few quadrillionths of a second—a femtosecond is to a second what a second is to about 32 million years.
Scientists Create Metal That Pumps Liquid Uphill | Impact Lab 2009
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Today we can measure reaction rates using virtually any time scale from quadrillionths of a second to thousands of years.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992 - Presentation Speech 1997
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