femtosecond
See also: femto-second
English
Noun
femtosecond (plural femtoseconds)
- (metrology) An SI unit of time equal to 10−15 seconds. Symbol: fs
- 2012, Mark Cendrowski, The Big Bang Theory, Season 5, Episode 18, "The Werewolf Transformation":
- Sheldon Cooper: My hair is growing at the rate of 4.6 yoctometers per femtosecond.
- 2017, D. E. Rivas, A. Borot, D. E. Cardenas, G. Marcus, X. Gu, D. Herrmann, J. Xu, J. Tan, D. Kormin, G. Ma, W. Dallari, G. D. Tsakiris, I. B. Földes, S.-w. Chou, M. Weidman, B. Bergues, T. Wittmann, H. Schröder, P. Tzallas, D. Charalambidis, O. Razskazovskaya, V. Pervak, F. Krausz, L. Veisz, “Next Generation Driver for Attosecond and Laser-plasma Physics”, in Scientific Reports, volume 7, :
- The observation and manipulation of electron dynamics in matter call for attosecond light pulses, routinely available from high-order harmonic generation driven by few-femtosecond lasers.
- 2012, Mark Cendrowski, The Big Bang Theory, Season 5, Episode 18, "The Werewolf Transformation":
Translations
unit of time, equal to 10−15 second
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Further reading
- “femtosecond”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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