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  • noun Plural form of picosecond.

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  • You want to see aggregates (sums or counts or minima or maxima) of, for example, the number of times that thread 1 has accessed file tablespace_1, or the number of "picoseconds" that have been spent on reads of tablespace_1 by all threads?

    Planet MySQL 2009

  • The TIMER_WAIT column tells us that the event took 508312 "picoseconds".

    Planet MySQL 2009

  • Grace, after Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, most famous for removing a moth from the Mark II computer, secondarily for handing out "picoseconds" and "nanoseconds," but most importantly for inventing the compiler

    Planet Ubuntu 2008

  • "picoseconds" inside quote marks because I'm avoiding any pretense that measurement can be so precise, or even that there's always a relation to seconds on a real-world clock.

    Planet MySQL 2009

  • But in recent weeks trading techies have started to talk about picoseconds —one trillionth of a second.

    Traders Slice the Second Even Thinner Michelle Price 2011

  • Speaking at a London conference on Tuesday, Donal Byrne , chief executive of Corvil, a high-speed trading technology company, caused a ripple of audible incredulity throughout the room when he suggested that trading speeds could be reduced to picoseconds in the not too distant future.

    Traders Slice the Second Even Thinner Michelle Price 2011

  • There are no technological limits preventing firms from trading in picoseconds but achieving this extraordinary speed is expensive, said Mr. Byrne.

    Traders Slice the Second Even Thinner Michelle Price 2011

  • In my humble opinion, a fish has a far stronger claim to being “water-cooled”, given that the heat-retention capabilities of nanometer-scale molecular system are essentially nil I read once that the heat energy radiates away dissipates in picoseconds at that scale.

    The Panda's Thumb: Flagellum evolution Archives 2010

  • But in 99, I had a friend, a theoretical physicist, tell me that pretty much everything had been done, and apart from a few arguments about the first picoseconds of existence, it was all in the bag.

    The End of Science Fiction (yet again) Lou Anders 2008

  • Electrically exploded wires get to extreme temperatures in the last few picoseconds of their life.

    Hydrogen Gas Cannons Could Launch Payloads to Orbit (w/video) | Universe Today 2010

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