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submillisecond

submillisecond adjective: lasting less than a millisecond.

Adjective

submillisecond (not comparable)

  1. Lasting less than a millisecond.
    • On the submillisecond time scale, long-lived hemifusion intermediates dominate; this population decays over a time scale of several microseconds (t_(1/2) = 6.3 μs) to yield fully fused vesicles.2006 August 8, Peter M Kasson et al., “Ensemble molecular dynamics yields submillisecond kinetics and intermediates of membrane fusion”, in PNAS, volume 103, number 32, →DOI, archived from the...

Forms of submillisecond

alternative formsub-millisecond

Origin of submillisecond

From sub- + millisecond.

Questions about submillisecond

What does submillisecond mean?
Submillisecond means lasting less than a millisecond.
What part of speech is submillisecond?
Submillisecond is an adjective.

Words near submillisecond in the dictionary

  1. submillimetre
  2. submillimetres
  3. submillimetric
  4. submillimetrical
  5. submillimolar
  6. submillisecond
  7. submillisievert
  8. submind
  9. subminds
  10. submini
  11. subminiature

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