FEMTOSECOND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does femtosecond mean? 

• FEMTOSECOND (noun)
  The noun FEMTOSECOND has 1 sense:

1. one quadrillionth (10^-15) of a second; one thousandth of a picosecond

  Familiarity information: FEMTOSECOND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEMTOSECOND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One quadrillionth (10^-15) of a second; one thousandth of a picosecond

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("femtosecond" is a kind of...):

time unit; unit of time (a unit for measuring time periods)

Meronyms (parts of "femtosecond"):

attosecond (one quintillionth (10^-18) of a second; one thousandth of a femtosecond)

Holonyms ("femtosecond" is a part of...):

picosecond (one trillionth (10^-12) of a second; one thousandth of a nanosecond)

 Context examples 

Many take place on a picosecond and femtosecond scale, which is unbelievably fast — the number of femtoseconds in one second is significantly larger than the number of seconds in a person's life-time.

(World's Fastest Film Camera, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)