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Revision as of 06:21, 19 November 2007 by Itub (talk | contribs) (Fix errors by cyclepat. The abbreviation of millisecond is ms, not Ms)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)A millisecond (ms) is one thousandth of a second.
To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 10 seconds and 10 seconds (1 millisecond to 10 milliseconds). See also times of other orders of magnitude.
- shorter times
- 1 millisecond (1 ms) – cycle time for frequency 1 kHz
- 1 millisecond – duration of light for typical photo flash strobe
- 1 millisecond – repetition interval of GPS C/A PN code
- 1.000692286 milliseconds – time taken for light to travel 300 km in a vacuum
- 2 milliseconds – half life of hassium-265
- 2.27 milliseconds – cycle time for the A above middle C in music (440 Hz); if a tuning device for musical instruments generates just one tone, it is probably this tone
- 3 milliseconds – a housefly’s wing flap
- 3.4 milliseconds – half life of meitnerium-266
- 5 milliseconds – a honeybee’s wing flap
- 8 milliseconds – camera shutter speed at setting 125
- 9 milliseconds – typical maximum seek time for a 7200rpm hard disk
- longer times
| Orders of magnitude of time | |
|---|---|
| by powers of ten | |
| Negative powers | |
| Positive powers | |