What Are Milliseconds?
A millisecond is one thousandth of a second. This unit of measurement used for time comes up in a variety of contexts, including photography, sports, and scientific experiments. Devices which are capable of accurately measuring a millisecond must be carefully calibrated, and standard timepieces such as watches are generally not capable of measuring time this precisely. People may note that measurements of time are sometimes given in milliseconds or even smaller units of measurement for events which happen very quickly.
A millisecond is one thousandth of a second. This unit of measurement used for time comes up in a variety of contexts, including photography, sports, and scientific experiments. Devices which are capable of accurately measuring a millisecond must be carefully calibrated, and standard timepieces such as watches are generally not capable of measuring time this precisely. People may note that measurements of time are sometimes given in milliseconds or even smaller units of measurement for events which happen very quickly. The millisecond is part of the international system of units (SI), as is the second, the unit upon which it is based. The second has been formally defined as the amount of time it takes for a caesium 133 atom to move through 9,192,631,770 oscillations. Atomic clocks are used in the scientific community to measure the second, with several clocks synchronizing their output for International Atomic Time. These clocks are also used when periodic adjustments to timekeeping ne
