nanosecond : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: nanosecond	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for nanosecond
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nanosecond n one billionth (10^-9) of a second; one thousandth of a microsecond
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
nanosecond (ns) 10^-9 seconds; one thousand millionth part of a second. This is the unit in which the fundamental logical operations of modern digital circuits are typically measured. For example, a {microprocessor} with a {clock} frequency of 100 {megahertz} will have a 10 nanosecond clock period. (1996-11-15)