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  2. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    The Planck time is the time that light takes to travel one Planck length. The TU (for time unit) is a unit of time defined as 1024 μs for use in engineering. The svedberg is a time unit used for sedimentation rates (usually of proteins). It is defined as 10 −13 seconds (100 fs).

  3. Historical definitions of the SI base units - Wikipedia

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    Evolution of the SI base units [1]: 6 [5] [6]; Unit name Definition [n 1]; second: Prior: (1675) ⁠ 1 / 86 400 ⁠ of a day of 24 hours of 60 minutes of 60 seconds. TLB; Interim (1956): ⁠ 1 / 31 556 925.9747 ⁠ of the tropical year for 1900 January 0 at 12 hours ephemeris time.

  4. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    10 −14 qs: The length of one Planck time (t P = / ≈ 5.39 × 10 −44 s) [3] is the briefest physically meaningful span of time. It is the unit of time in the natural units system known as Planck units. 10 −30: quectosecond: qs Quectosecond, (quecto-+ second), is one nonillionth of a second 10 −27: rontosecond: rs

  5. Unit of length - Wikipedia

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    The base unit in the International System of Units (SI) is the meter, defined as "the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1 ⁄ 299792458 seconds." [ 9 ] It is approximately equal to 1.0936 yd .

  6. Time - Wikipedia

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    The second (s) is the SI base unit. A minute (min) is 60 seconds in length (or, rarely, 59 or 61 seconds when leap seconds are employed), and an hour is 60 minutes or 3600 seconds in length. A day is usually 24 hours or 86,400 seconds in length; however, the duration of a calendar day can vary due to Daylight saving time and Leap seconds.

  7. International System of Units - Wikipedia

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    The SI units are defined by declaring that seven defining constants [1]: 125–129 have certain exact numerical values when expressed in terms of their SI units. The realisation of the definition of a unit is the procedure by which the definition may be used to establish the value and associated uncertainty of a quantity of the same kind as the ...

  8. Metric time - Wikipedia

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    Name of unit Seconds In common units 10 1: decasecond: 10: 0.17 minutes 10 2: hectosecond: 100: 1.67 minutes (or 1 minute 40 seconds) 10 3: kilosecond: 1 000: 16.7 minutes (or 16 minutes and 40 seconds) 10 6: megasecond: 1 000 000: 11.6 days (or 11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes and 40 seconds) 10 9: gigasecond: 1 000 000 000

  9. SI base unit - Wikipedia

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    length "The metre, symbol m, is the SI unit of length. It is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the speed of light in vacuum c to be 299 792 458 when expressed in the unit m s −1, where the second is defined in terms of ∆ν Cs." [1]