Millisecond (463 bytes)
1: ...al to one thousandth of a [[second]]. The word '''millisecond''' is formed by the [[SI prefix|prefix]], ''[[mil...
7: ... E-3 s]] for a list of times on the order of 1-10 milliseconds
12: [[nl:Milliseconde]]

Millisecond Pulsars (1039 bytes)
1: '''Millisecond pulsars''' (MSPs), often referred to as '''"recyc...
3: has overflown its [[Roche lobe]]. The first millisecond pulsar, PSR B1937+21, was discovered in 1982 by B...
6: Many millisecond pulsars are found in [[globular cluster]]s becaus...
7: ...of mass-transfer binaries that spin pulsars up to millisecond pulsars. Currently
8: ...rs. Some globular clusters contain as many as 20 millisecond pulsars.

1 E-4 s (625 bytes)
1: ...> seconds and 10^-3 seconds (0.1 to 1.0 milliseconds). ''See also'' [[Orders of magnitude (time)|time...
4: *0.1 millisecond -- cycle time for frequency [[1 E4 Hz|10 kHz]]
5: *0.125 millisecond -- sampling interval for telephone audio (8000 sa...
6: *0.24 millisecond -- [[half-life]] of [[ununbium]]
7: *0.25 millisecond -- cycle time for highest tone in telephone audio...

Software sampler (543 bytes)
1: ...hort-term [[waveform]]s (''i.e.'', less than 100[[millisecond|ms]] in length), a ''software sampler'' always re...

Michael Davis (disambiguation) (488 bytes)
3: *[[Michael Davis (astronomer)]] discovered the millisecond pulsar [[Timeline of white dwarfs, neutron stars,...

Levinthal paradox (842 bytes)
1: ...ar sequence, in a timespan that is much shorter([[millisecond]]s) than what would be expected if the molecule a...

Arc-fault circuit interrupter (623 bytes)
1: ...tect sudden bursts of [[electrical current]] in [[millisecond]]s, long before they would trip a regular [[circu...

Synthetic element (741 bytes)
1: ...[half-life]] so short (ranging from a fraction of millisecond to a few million years) relative to the age of th...

Andrew Lyne (2628 bytes)
1: ...to probe deeper into the Galaxy, particularly for millisecond [[pulsar]]s, young pulsars and any that might be ...
2: ...of a nursery for pulsars of both the standard and millisecond variety.

CHU (2466 bytes)
6: ...te, the once-per-second tones are again cut to 10 milliseconds each, this time while voice announcements of the...

Pulsar (2590 bytes)
11: ...tron star to "recycle" it as a rotation-powered [[millisecond pulsar]].
16: *The first millisecond pulsar, [[PSR B1937 plus 21|PSR B1937+21]]

Globular Cluster M28 (711 bytes)
3: ...came the second globular cluster where a [[pulsar|millisecond pulsar]] was discovered (the first was [[Globular...

Seek time (1138 bytes)
3: ...ypical seek time for a [[hard disk]] is about 9 [[Millisecond|ms]]. Hard disc drives achieve this speed by havi...

Pulsar planets (1264 bytes)
1: ...d around another star, were discovered around a [[millisecond pulsar]]. Pulsar planets are discovered through '...

PSR 1257 plus 12 (4025 bytes)
10: ...more characteristic of regular pulsars than other millisecond pulsars, and its sate is thought to be caused by ...

Short QT syndrome (3935 bytes)
1: ...t [[QT interval]] interval on [[EKG]] (≤ 300 [[millisecond | ms]]) that doesn't significantly change with he...
15: ...G]] are a short QT interval, typically ≤ 300 [[millisecond | ms]], that doesn't significantly change with th...

Little green men (1506 bytes)
1: .... The signal has a 1.337 second [[period]] and 40 millisecond [[pulsewidth]], and originates at [[celestial coo...

Cavity ring down spectroscopy (1170 bytes)
6: ...oughput, individual ring down events occur on the millisecond time scale.

Rotation-powered pulsar (8814 bytes)
13: ... the discovery of a pulsar with a very short 33-[[millisecond]] pulse period in the [[Crab nebula]].
19: ...es cemented the idea that a new class of object, "millisecond pulsars" (MSPs) had been found. MSPs are believe...
21: ...cted [[extrasolar planets]] were found orbiting a millisecond pulsar in [[1990]], by [[Aleksander Wolszczan]]. ...
26: Millisecond pulsars are thought to have been spun up to high ...
36: ...sity can be observed (though not directly). Also, millisecond pulsars have allowed one test of [[general relati...

Saccadic masking (5312 bytes)
15: ...he track, and the blur reappears in a course of a millisecond.
17: Yet, that millisecond (or so) is long enough for a [[snapshot]] of reti...

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