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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). A millisecond is one thousandth of a second. 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 honeybee’s wing flap
  • 8 milliseconds – camera shutter speed at setting 125
  • 9 milliseconds – typical maximum seek time for a 7200rpm hard disk
  • longer times
Orders of magnitude (time), by powers of seconds
Negative powers 10−44 s | ... | 10−25 s | 10−24 s | 10−23 s | 10−22 s | 10−21 s | 10−20 s | 10−19 s | 10−18 s | 10−17 s | 10−16 s | 10−15 s | 10−14 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