how to pronounce millisecond

/ˈmɪl.ɪˌsɛk.ənd/

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millisecond is pronounced in four syllables

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An example use of millisecond in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… in this case one millisecond is one bit …”

meanings of millisecond

noun:

One one-thousandth of a second. Symbol: ms. The suggestion that pulsars were rotating neutron stars was put forth independently by Thomas Gold and Franco Pacini in 1968, and was soon proven beyond reasonable doubt by the discovery of a pulsar with a very short (33-millisecond) pulse period in the Crab nebula.^W.

millisecond frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word millisecond occurs in english on average 0.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics millisecond can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that millisecond can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) education, science, and technology;