millisecondn.

Brit.

/ˈmɪlɪˌsɛk(ə)nd/, U.S.

/ˈmɪləˌsɛkən(d)/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; perhaps modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: milli- comb. form, second n.¹

Etymology: < milli- comb. form + second n.¹, perhaps after German Millisekunde (1878 or earlier).

One-thousandth of a second (usually a second of time, less often a second of arc); (colloquial) a very short interval of time. Abbreviated ms, msec.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > period > a second > [noun] > specific part of

atomOE

third1595

millisecond1882

centisecond1905

microsecond1906

nanosecond1958

picosecond1962

1882 G. Douglas tr. G. Jaeger Rational Clothing Syst. xviii. 140 I slipped on a white shirt over my woollen one..having previously ascertained my cerebral time which then stood at 125 milliseconds.

1922 R. Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics II. 421/1 The arrangement of the coils is astatic and the time constant is about 1·6 milliseconds at the maximum.

1929 Papers Inst. Post Office Electr. Engin. No. 122. 11 It would be difficult to read to an accuracy of less than about 10 milliseconds.

1941 I. Asimov in E. S. Rabkin Sci. Fiction: Hist. Anthol. (1983) 334 Deviations in arc of a hundredth of a milli-second..were enough to send the beam wildly out of focus.

1960 K. M. Delavenay & E. Delavenay Introd. Machine Transl. vi. 82 The lexical memory of the machine should provide random access to any word in not more than 10 milliseconds.

1973 C. Egleton Seven Days to Killing i. 16 The car disintegrated, and a millisecond later the blast wave shattered the windscreen in the cab of the truck.

1976 A. MacLean Golden Gate x. 211 A tiny intense spark of bluish-white that could have lasted only milli-seconds.

1986 New Statesman 26 Sept. 46/2 Beefburgers done to a turn in under a millisecond—so no queueing.

2015 K. L. Seegers tr. D. Meyer Icarus i. 2 He could see the video on his phone screen mere milliseconds after the Phantom recorded it up there in the sky.

Compounds

millisecond pulsar n. Astronomy a pulsar that rotates very rapidly, once every few milliseconds.

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1982 Internat. Astron. Union Circular No. 3743 D. Backer et al. report the detection of a millisecond pulsar in 4C 21.53. The period was 0.001557708s on 1982 September 25.

1993 Sci. Amer. Nov. 42/1 The rotating neutron star is now a millisecond pulsar that emits pulses of radio waves but no x-rays.

1999 Astrophysical Jrnl. 523 763 Circular (and near-circular) orbits are allowed only if the pulsar magnetic field is ∼3 × 10⁹ G, an order of magnitude higher than a typical millisecond pulsar field strength.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	millisecond
释义	millisecondn. Brit. /ˈmɪlɪˌsɛk(ə)nd/, U.S. /ˈmɪləˌsɛkən(d)/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; perhaps modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: milli- comb. form, second n.¹ Etymology: < milli- comb. form + second n.¹, perhaps after German Millisekunde (1878 or earlier). One-thousandth of a second (usually a second of time, less often a second of arc); (colloquial) a very short interval of time. Abbreviated ms, msec. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a second > [noun] > specific part of atomOE third1595 millisecond1882 centisecond1905 microsecond1906 nanosecond1958 picosecond1962 1882 G. Douglas tr. G. Jaeger Rational Clothing Syst. xviii. 140 I slipped on a white shirt over my woollen one..having previously ascertained my cerebral time which then stood at 125 milliseconds. 1922 R. Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics II. 421/1 The arrangement of the coils is astatic and the time constant is about 1·6 milliseconds at the maximum. 1929 Papers Inst. Post Office Electr. Engin. No. 122. 11 It would be difficult to read to an accuracy of less than about 10 milliseconds. 1941 I. Asimov in E. S. Rabkin Sci. Fiction: Hist. Anthol. (1983) 334 Deviations in arc of a hundredth of a milli-second..were enough to send the beam wildly out of focus. 1960 K. M. Delavenay & E. Delavenay Introd. Machine Transl. vi. 82 The lexical memory of the machine should provide random access to any word in not more than 10 milliseconds. 1973 C. Egleton Seven Days to Killing i. 16 The car disintegrated, and a millisecond later the blast wave shattered the windscreen in the cab of the truck. 1976 A. MacLean Golden Gate x. 211 A tiny intense spark of bluish-white that could have lasted only milli-seconds. 1986 New Statesman 26 Sept. 46/2 Beefburgers done to a turn in under a millisecond—so no queueing. 2015 K. L. Seegers tr. D. Meyer Icarus i. 2 He could see the video on his phone screen mere milliseconds after the Phantom recorded it up there in the sky. Compounds millisecond pulsar n. Astronomy a pulsar that rotates very rapidly, once every few milliseconds. ΚΠ 1982 Internat. Astron. Union Circular No. 3743 D. Backer et al. report the detection of a millisecond pulsar in 4C 21.53. The period was 0.001557708s on 1982 September 25. 1993 Sci. Amer. Nov. 42/1 The rotating neutron star is now a millisecond pulsar that emits pulses of radio waves but no x-rays. 1999 Astrophysical Jrnl. 523 763 Circular (and near-circular) orbits are allowed only if the pulsar magnetic field is ∼3 × 10⁹ G, an order of magnitude higher than a typical millisecond pulsar field strength. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1882
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