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nanosecond

SI unit of time equal to one billionth of a second or 1/1,000th of a microsecond
Intangible unit_of_time Q838801

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
unit of time, SI derived unit[2]
Conversion to SI unit
1e-09[5]
Different from
light-foot[4]
Measured physical quantity
duration[3]
Unit symbol
ns, нс, ns[7][8][9]
Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent
wd:Q838801 p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?source; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. ?item p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?target; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. BIND(?source / ?target as ?value)[6]
🏷️ Also known as
en ns en nanosecond ar نانو ثانية ar نانوثانية cs nanosekunda cs ns da nanosekund de ns de Nanosekunde es ns es nanosegundo fa نانو ثانیه fa نانوثانیه fi nanosekunti fr nanoseconde fr ns he ננושנייה hu milliárdodmásodperc hu nanomásodperc hu nanoszekundum
🔖 Identifiers · 12
OpenAlex ID
C51141536
Freebase ID
/m/08_86
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
nanosekund
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
51141536
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
380693
Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID
nanosecond-Time
QUDT dimension ID
A0E0L0I0M0H0T1D0
QUDT unit ID
NanoSEC
UCUM code
ns
UN/CEFACT Common Code
C47
Wolfram Language unit code
"Nanoseconds"
Wurvoc.org measure ID
nanosecond-time

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Instance of 2
SI derived unit, unit of time
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Summary

nanosecond is an unit of time[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Logopedia. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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