Definitions
Etymologies
- femto- + second (Wiktionary)
Examples
“One femtosecond is 10-15 seconds, that is, 0.000000000000001 seconds, which is to a second as a second is to 32 million years.”
“The laser, called a femtosecond laser, produces pulses lasting only a few quadrillionths of a second—a femtosecond is to a second what a second is to about 32 million years.”
Scientists Create Metal That Pumps Liquid Uphill | Impact Lab
“The key to creating this super-filament is an ultrabrief, ultraintense beam of light called a femtosecond laser pulse.”
“Scientists at the University of Rochester are using an "ultra-intense beam of light called the femtosecond laser pulse" to create "nano - and micro-scale structures on the surface of a regular tungsten filament" of an incandescent light bulb.”
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“The laser, called a femtosecond laser, produces pulses lasting only a few quadrillionths of a second-a femtosecond is to a second what a second is to about 32 million years.”
“The key to creating the super-filament is an ultra-brief, ultra-intense beam of light called a femtosecond laser pulse.”
“The key to creating the black metal in terahertz is a beam of ultra-brief, ultra-intense laser pulses called femtosecond laser pulses.”
“Today, the top end of research is "femtosecond" lasers, in which ultra-fast lasers alter the "spin" of electrons in individual atoms to provide a more compact, denser storage on hard drives.”
“A Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Physics at Tufts, Omenetto was fascinated by the lab equipment his father used, such as femtosecond lasers.”
“(A femtosecond is a millionth of a billionth of a second.”
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Blippets
Time~sphere phenomena, manipulations, fluctuations, processes, measurements, and oddities. For use in building my machine.
microfortnight, transilient, instant, flash, breath, blink, beat, momentary, nimesha, truti, second, centisecond and 120 more...
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
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Evin290's Words
puerile, fastidious, blatherskite, folderol, femtosecond, redox, incarnadine, cerulean, genuflection, muslin, multitudinous, miasma and 517 more...
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thebunches92's Words
zeitgeist, schadenfreude, colloquial, sepia, realpolitik, novella, multiplicative, nee, qat, leitmotif, abhor, seductress and 77 more...
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I'll Be There In a Second, Pt. II
femtosecond, nanosecond, microsecond, millisecond, centisecond, picosecond, attosecond, zeptosecond, yoctosecond, second, kilosecond, megasecond and 6 more...
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seanmeade's Words
ubiquitous, defenestrate, schadenfreude, mellifluous, doppelganger, penultimate, antepenultimate, avuncular, apotheosis, apogee, cygnet, eponymous and 52 more...
Tweets
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bilby *yawn* May 17, 2008
whichbe 0,000 000 000 000 001 of a second ("fs"). May 17, 2008
reesetee One quadrillionth of a second. Feb 2, 2007