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Wiktionary
n. (SI-unit atto second time)
WordNet
n. one quintillionth of a second; one thousandth of a femtosecond
Wikipedia
An attosecond is 1×10 of a second (one quintillionth of a second). For context, an attosecond is to a second what a second is to about 31.71 billion years.
The word "attosecond" is formed by the prefix atto and the unit second. Atto- was made from the Danish word for eighteen (atten). Its symbol is as.
An attosecond is equal to 1000 zeptoseconds, or of a femtosecond. Because the next higher SI unit for time is the femtosecond (10 seconds), durations of 10 s and 10 s will typically be expressed as tens or hundreds of attoseconds:
- (Shorter time: zeptosecond)
Times which can be expressed in attoseconds:
- 1 attosecond: the time it takes for light to travel the length of two hydrogen atoms
- 12 attoseconds: record for shortest time interval measured as of 12 May 2010
- 24 attoseconds: the atomic unit of time
- 67 attoseconds: the shortest pulses of laser light yet created
- 100 attoseconds: fastest ever view of molecular motion
- 200 attoseconds (approximately): half-life of beryllium-8, maximum time available for the triple-alpha process for the synthesis of carbon and heavier elements in stars
- 320 attoseconds: estimated time it takes electrons to transfer between atoms
- (Longer time: femtosecond)
Usage examples of "attosecond".
The embodied computer's internal processing unit, with a clock rate of eighteen attoseconds, could query the ship's data bank through the attached neural cable and perform a full statistical analysis while the humans were still trying to read the list.
Tally, with his eighteen-attosecond memory cycle, could compute trillions of twenty-digit multiplications in the time of a human eye-blink.
Tally had attosecond circuits, capable of a billion billion calculations a second.
The coherent tachyns of her ghost lance would have strewn Baby's component atoms-and his-across a dozen dimensions in an attosecond if it still functioned, and with Baby's ghostdrive gland had also gone her tachyon sense, so they would have had no warning.
The arrival times of the anomalously heavy particle nuclei were measurable to within an attosecond.