Meaning & use
millisecond
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A unit of time equal to one thousandth of a second.
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The camera's shutter can capture an image in just a few milliseconds.
A computer chip can perform millions of calculations in a single millisecond.
A note on using this word
Commonly abbreviated "ms" in scientific and technical writing.
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