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A millisecond (ms) is one thousandth of a second.

Orders of magnitudes

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.

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• 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
• 2.27 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

Notes

1. "ms." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. Answers.com. Accessed 20-11-2007. Note: ms abbr. of millisecond.
2. "ms." The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002. Answers.com. Accessed 20-11-2007. Note: ms abbr. of millisecond
3. "Definition of ms." Merriam-Webster Online. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, 2005. merriam-webster.com. Accessed 20-11-2007. Note: ms functions as an abbreviation for millisecond.
4. Harper, Douglas. "Millisecond." Online Etymology Dictionary. Nov. 2001. etymonline.com. Accessed 20-11-2007. Note: "one thousandth of a second," 1922, from L. mille "a thousand" (see mile) + second (n.).

• Orders of magnitude (time)