Concept
Millisecond
Overview
A millisecond (from milli- and second; symbol: ms) is a unit of time in the International System of Units equal to one thousandth (0.001 or 10−3 or 1/1000) of a second or 1000 microseconds.
A millisecond is to one second, as one second is to approximately 16.67 minutes.
A unit of 10 milliseconds may be called a centisecond, and one of 100 milliseconds a decisecond, but these names are rarely used.
To help compare orders of magnitude of different times, this page lists times between 10−3 seconds and 100 seconds (1 millisecond and one second). See also times of other orders of magnitude.
See also: Other orders of magnitude of time.
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Mathematicians have distinguished different degrees of continuity, and have confined the word "continuous," for technical purposes, to series having a certain high degree of continuity. But for philosophical purposes, all that is important in continuity is introduced by the lowest degree of continuity, which is called "compactness." A series is called "compact" when no two terms are consecutive, but…
Bertrand Russell, Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy
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The comparison of time-measurements in diverse time-systems requires two other axioms. The first of these axioms, forming the fifth axiom of congruence, will be called the axiom of 'kinetic symmetry.' It expresses the symmetry of the quantitative relations between two time-systems when the times and lengths in the two systems are measured in congruent units. The axiom can be explained as follows: Let {alpha} and…
Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
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Footnote 8: Max Müller’s translation. “I call an extensive quantity that in which the representation of the whole is rendered possible by the representation of its parts, _and therefore necessarily preceded by it_.[9] I cannot represent to myself any line, however small it may be, without drawing it in thought, that is, without producing all its parts one after the other, starting from a given point, and thus, first…
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the modern world
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