A unit of 10 milliseconds may be called a centisecond, and one of 100 milliseconds a decisecond, but these names are rarely used.[3]
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 alsotimes of other orders of magnitude.
Horizontal logarithmic scale marked with units of time
Examples
The
Apollo Guidance Computer used metric units internally, with centiseconds used for time calculation and measurement.[4]
1 millisecond (1 ms) –
cycle time for frequency 1
kHz; duration of light for typical photo
flash strobe; time taken for
sound wave to travel about 34 cm; repetition interval of
GPS C/A PN code
1 millisecond - time taken for light to travel 204.19 km in a single mode fiber optic cable for a wavelength of 1550nm (frequency: 193 THz).
1.000692286 milliseconds – time taken for
light to travel 300 km in a vacuum
1 to 5 milliseconds – typical response time in LCD computer monitors, especially high-end displays
A unit of 10 milliseconds may be called a centisecond, and one of 100 milliseconds a decisecond, but these names are rarely used.[3]
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 alsotimes of other orders of magnitude.
Horizontal logarithmic scale marked with units of time
Examples
The
Apollo Guidance Computer used metric units internally, with centiseconds used for time calculation and measurement.[4]
1 millisecond (1 ms) –
cycle time for frequency 1
kHz; duration of light for typical photo
flash strobe; time taken for
sound wave to travel about 34 cm; repetition interval of
GPS C/A PN code
1 millisecond - time taken for light to travel 204.19 km in a single mode fiber optic cable for a wavelength of 1550nm (frequency: 193 THz).
1.000692286 milliseconds – time taken for
light to travel 300 km in a vacuum
1 to 5 milliseconds – typical response time in LCD computer monitors, especially high-end displays