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Nanosecond

A nanosecond is a unit of time equal to one billionth of a second, that is, 1/1000000000 second or 10−9 seconds. It is only infrequently put into everyday use. In technical situations it is however a very common unit, especially in the line of telecommunications.

See also 1 E-9 s