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Noun: nanosecond  'na-now,se-kund
  1. One billionth (10^-9) of a second; one thousandth of a microsecond
    "The network's latency was measured in nanoseconds";
    - ns

Derived forms: nanoseconds

Type of: time unit, unit of time

Part of: microsecond

Encyclopedia: Nanosecond