Terasecond

{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-005936",
  "term": "Terasecond",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one trillion (10^12) seconds. This large timescale, equivalent to approximately 31,700 years, is used in scientific fields like geology and astronomy to quantify long-duration phenomena, such as the half-life of certain radioactive isotopes or periods in planetary history. A terasecond is one thousand times longer than a gigasecond and one thousand times shorter than a petasecond.",
  "subject": "Metrology and inspection",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Terasekunde",
    "es": "terasegundo",
    "fr": "téraseconde"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/terasecond/"
}