Millisecond

Orders of magnitude (time) in E notation
Planck time 1 E-25 s 1 E-24 s 1 E-21 s 1 E-18 s 1 E-17 s 1 E-16 s 1 E-15 s 1 E-14 s 1 E-13 s 1 E-12 s 1 E-11 s 1 E-10 s 1 E-9 s 1 E-8 s 1 E-7 s 1 E-6 s 1 E-5 s 1 E-4 s 1 E-3 s 1 E-2 s 1 E-1 s	1 E0 s 1 E1 s 1 E2 s 1 E3 s 1 E4 s 1 E5 s 1 E6 s 1 E7 s 1 E8 s 1 E9 s 1 E10 s 1 E11 s 1 E12 s 1 E13 s 1 E14 s 1 E15 s 1 E16 s 1 E17 s 1 E18 s 1 E19 s and more
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A millisecond (from milli- and second; abbreviation: ms) is one thousandth of a second.

To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 10⁻³ seconds and 10⁻² seconds (1 millisecond to 10 milliseconds). See also times of other orders of magnitude.

shorter times
1 millisecond (1 ms) – cycle time for frequency 1 kHz
1 millisecond – duration of light for typical photo flash strobe
1 millisecond – repetition interval of GPS C/A PN code
1.000692286 milliseconds – time taken for light to travel 300 km in a vacuum
2 milliseconds – half life of hassium-265
2.27 milliseconds – cycle time for the A above middle C in music (440 Hz); if a tuning device for musical instruments generates just one tone, it is probably this tone
3 milliseconds – a housefly’s wing flap
3.4 milliseconds – half life of meitnerium-266
5 milliseconds – a honey bee’s wing flap
8 milliseconds – 1/125 of a second (125), a standard camera shutter speed
9 milliseconds – typical maximum seek time for a 7200rpm hard disk
longer times

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v • d • e Orders of magnitude (time), by powers of seconds

Negative powers	10⁻⁴⁴ s \| ... \| 10⁻²⁵ s \| 10⁻²⁴ s ... 10⁻²² s \| 10⁻²¹ s ... 10⁻¹⁹ s \| 10⁻¹⁸ s ... 10⁻¹⁶ s \| 10⁻¹⁵ s ... 10⁻¹³ s \| 10⁻¹² s \| 10⁻¹¹ s \| 10⁻¹⁰ s \| 10⁻⁹ s \| 10⁻⁸ s \| 10⁻⁷ s \| 10⁻⁶ s \| 10⁻⁵ s \| 10⁻⁴ s \| 10⁻³ s \| 10⁻² s \| 10⁻¹ s

Positive powers	1 s \| 10 s \| 10² s \| 10³ s \| 10⁴ s \| 10⁵ s \| 10⁶ s \| 10⁷ s \| 10⁸ s \| 10⁹ s \| 10¹⁰ s \| 10¹¹ s \| 10¹² s \| 10¹³ s \|10¹⁴ s \| 10¹⁵ s \| 10¹⁶ s \| 10¹⁷ s \| 10¹⁸ s \| 10¹⁹ s and more