Picosecond

{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-004294",
  "term": "Picosecond",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A unit of time equal to one trillionth (10^-12) of a second. This extremely short interval is used in fields like high-speed electronics, laser physics, and chemical kinetics to measure phenomena such as microprocessor clock cycles, the duration of ultrashort laser pulses, and molecular vibrations. A picosecond is one thousand times longer than a femtosecond and one thousand times shorter than a nanosecond.",
  "subject": "Metrology and inspection",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Pikosekunde",
    "es": "picosegundo",
    "fr": "picoseconde"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/picosecond/"
}