microsecond n : one millionth of a second; one thousandth of a millisecond

English

Etymology

micro- + second

Noun

1. A unit of time equal to 0.000001 seconds (i.e., one-millionth of a second) and commonly represented with symbol µs.

Translations

• Dutch: microseconde
• Finnish: mikrosekunti
• Hebrew: מיקרושניה
• Italian: microsecondo
• Japanese: マイクロ秒
• Lithuanian: mikrosekundė
• Russian: микросекунда
• Slovak: mikrosekunda

To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 10−6 seconds and 10−5 seconds (1 microsecond to 10 microseconds). A microsecond is one millionth of a second. See also times of other orders of magnitude.

• shorter times
• 1 microsecond (1 μs) – cycle time for frequency 1 MHz, radio wavelength 300 m (AM mediumwave band)
• 1 microsecond – the length of time of a high-speed, commercial strobe light flash
• 2 microseconds – the life time of a muonium particle
• 3.33564095 microseconds – the time taken by light to travel one kilometre in a vacuum
• 5.4 microseconds – the time taken by light to travel one mile in a vacuum
• longer times