quectosecond
US/ˈkwɛk.toʊˌsɛk.ənd/
quectosecond noun: an SI unit of time equal to 10⁻³⁰ seconds. Symbol: qs.
Noun
quectosecond (plural quectoseconds)
- An SI unit of time equal to 10⁻³⁰ seconds. Symbol: qs
- Holonyms: rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < week < megasecond < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum...
- The number is bafflingly small. The largest possible value this fundamental unit of time could be is one thousandth of a quectosecond, according to research published last month in the journal Physical Review Letters. That’s ten to the -33rd power or, as Live Science helpfully put it, just one...2020 July 13, Dan Robitzski, “Physicists Say This Is the Smallest Unit of Time That Could Exist”, in futurism.com
Examples of quectosecond in a sentence
- The largest possible value this fundamental unit of time could be is one thousandth of a quectosecond, according to research published last month in the journal Physical Review Letters.2020 July 13, Dan Robitzski, “Physicists Say This Is the Smallest Unit of Time That Could Exist”, in futurism.com:
- quectosecond rontosecond plank time zeptosecond2023 February 24, eladl, “What is smaller than a yoctosecond?”, in math.answers.com:
- nanoseconds. picoseconds. femtoseconds. attoseconds. zeptoseconds. yoctoseconds. rontoseconds. quectoseconds.2023 October 3, GamerY7, the_fungible_man, “The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023”, in reddit.com:
- Infinite degrees of separation (picoseconds, femtoseconds, attoseconds, zeptoseconds, yoctoseconds, rontoseconds, quectoseconds, etcetera) exist between any nanosecond and its immediate successor.2024, J. Martin Strangeweather, The Eidetic Afterlife Hypothesis^([archive.org/details/the-eidetic-afterlife-hypothesis/page/n5/mode/2up?q=r...
Forms of quectosecond
| plural | quectoseconds |
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Origin of quectosecond
From quecto- + second.
Questions about quectosecond
- What does quectosecond mean?
- Quectosecond means an SI unit of time equal to 10⁻³⁰ seconds. Symbol: qs.
- How do you use quectosecond in a sentence?
- The largest possible value this fundamental unit of time could be is one thousandth of a quectosecond, according to research published last month in the journal Physical Review Letters.
- What part of speech is quectosecond?
- Quectosecond is a noun.
- How do you pronounce quectosecond?
- Quectosecond is pronounced /ˈkwɛk.toʊˌsɛk.ənd/ (US).
- What is the plural of quectosecond?
- The plural of quectosecond is quectoseconds.
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