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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One septillionth (10-24) of a second.

Wiktionary

  1. n. metrology An SI unit of time equal to 10−24 seconds.

Etymologies

  1. yocto- +‎ second (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Maybe the 'inflation' that physicists postulate as occupying some fraction of the first yoctosecond of the universe's existence will turn out, when it is better understood, to be a cosmological crane to stand alongside Darwin's biological one.”

    The God Delusion

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  • avivamagnolia
    ~ Abbr. ys or ysec
    ~ One septillionth (10-24) of a second Jan 18, 2009

  • humblegod Unit of time equal to 0.000000000000000000001 seconds. Symbol 'ys.' Dec 10, 2006

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