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ナノセカンド Japanese meaning | Kotomora

ナノセカンド

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Meanings

1

nanosecond; billionth of a second; ns

A unit of time equal to one billionth of a second. Used in technical and scientific contexts.

このプロセッサのクロック周しゅう期きは数すうナノセカンド

だ

。

The clock cycle of this processor is a few nanoseconds.

光ひかりは1ナノセカンドで約やく30センチメートル進すすむ。

Light travels about 30 centimeters in one nanosecond.

Related words

マイクロセカンド
A microsecond is one millionth of a second, 1000 times longer than a nanosecond.
ミリセカンド
A millisecond is one thousandth of a second, one million times longer than a nanosecond.

Built from

ナノ+セカンド

Written forms

ナノセカンドUsage100%
Standard katakana spelling for the loanword.
ナノ・セカンド
- ナノセカンド
  Variant with a middle dot; less common in everyday writing.
- ナノ・セカンド

Etymology

From English 'nanosecond', combining the SI prefix 'nano-' (from Greek νᾶνος, 'dwarf') and 'second'.