Picosecond (Noun)
Meaning
One trillionth (10^-12) of a second; one thousandth of a nanosecond.
Classification
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
Examples
- Pulses of light in ultra-fast lasers can have durations as brief as a few picoseconds.
- High-speed optical communication relies on precise timing measured in picoseconds.
- Physicists have made groundbreaking discoveries studying the decay processes that occur within a few picoseconds.
- New research proves that some chemical reactions can occur in a matter of picoseconds.
- To understand some fundamental physical processes, scientists had to develop instruments capable of resolving events in picoseconds.