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Microsecond

Term · Industrial and trades · MLC-T-IND-003648

A unit of time measurement equal to one millionth of a second, or 10⁻⁶ seconds. It is used to quantify events of very short duration in fields like electronics, computing, and physics, such as the execution time of a computer instruction or the duration of a laser pulse. A standard camera flash, for instance, has a duration of approximately 1,000 microseconds, which is equivalent to one millisecond.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-IND-003648
FieldIndustrial and trades
SubjectMetrology and inspection
TranslationsGerman: Mikrosekunde; Spanish: microsegundo; French: microseconde
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-IND-003648",
  "term": "Microsecond",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A unit of time measurement equal to one millionth of a second, or 10⁻⁶ seconds. It is used to quantify events of very short duration in fields like electronics, computing, and physics, such as the execution time of a computer instruction or the duration of a laser pulse. A standard camera flash, for instance, has a duration of approximately 1,000 microseconds, which is equivalent to one millisecond.",
  "subject": "Metrology and inspection",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Mikrosekunde",
    "es": "microsegundo",
    "fr": "microseconde"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/microsecond/"
}

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