Definition

A nanosecond is a SI unit of time equal to one billionth of a second (10-9 or 1/1,000,000,000 s). One nanosecond is to one second as one second is to 31.69 years. The word nanosecond is formed by the prefix nano and the unit second.

Concept Hierarchy

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Concept Information

IRI

https://vocab.sentier.dev/units/unit/NanoSEC

Notation

C47

Status

Accepted