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picosecond

SI unit of time equal to one trillionth of a second or 1/1,000th of a nanosecond
Intangible unit_of_time Q3902709

Facts

5 properties
Instance of
unit of time, SI derived unit[2]
Conversion to SI unit
1e-12[4]
Measured physical quantity
duration[3]
Unit symbol
ps, пс, ps[6][7][8]
Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent
wd:Q3902709 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)[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en picosecond en ps ar جزء الثانية الترليوني da pikosekund de Pikosekunde de ps es picosegundo fa پیکو ثانیه fa پیکوثانیه fi pikosekunti fr picoseconde he פיקושנייה hu pikomásodperc hu billiomodmásodperc hu pikoszekundum it picosecondo ja ピコ秒 ko 피코초 pl pikosekunda ru пикосекунда
🔖 Identifiers · 12
OpenAlex ID
C55005982
Freebase ID
/m/0kbm8
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
pikosekund
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
55005982
Ontology of units of Measure 2.0 unit ID
picosecond-Time
QUDT dimension ID
A0E0L0I0M0H0T1D0
QUDT unit ID
PicoSEC
ScienceDirect topic ID
engineering/picosecond
UCUM code
ps
UN/CEFACT Common Code
H70
Wolfram Language unit code
"Picoseconds"
Wurvoc.org measure ID
picosecond-time

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Instance of 2
SI derived unit, unit of time
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Summary

picosecond is an unit of time[1].

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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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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