Word of the Day:
picosecond
What It Means
An SI unit of time equal to 10⁻¹² seconds. Symbol: ps
Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond
Did You Know?
From pico- (“metric prefix”) + second.
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