microsecond

An SI unit of time equal to 10⁻⁶ seconds. Symbol: μs

Noun

  1. An SI unit of time equal to 10⁻⁶ seconds. Symbol: μs
    • Holonyms: millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear,...
    • Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond
    • He'd be on her ass in a microsecond, revoke her letters testamentary, they'd call her names, proclaim her through all Orange County as a redistributionist and pinko, slip the old man from Warpe, Wistfull, Kubitschek and...

    Related: mul:μs mul:μsec mul:us

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.? Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der. English micro- English second English microsecond From micro- + second.

Forms

microseconds

Derived

millimicrosecond submicrosecond