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  2. Metric time - Wikipedia

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    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: 31.7 years (or 31 years, 252 days, 1 hour, 46 minutes, 40 seconds, assuming that there are 7 ...

  3. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    10 1: decasecond das single seconds (1 das = 10 s) 6 das: One minute (min), the time it takes a second hand to cycle around a clock face 10 2: hectosecond hs minutes (1 hs = 1 min 40 s = 100 s) 2 hs (3 min 20 s): The average length of the most popular YouTube videos as of January 2017 [15] 5.55 hs (9 min 12 s): The longest videos in the above study

  4. Seconds (comics) - Wikipedia

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    Seconds is a graphic novel by Bryan Lee O'Malley. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Published on July 15, 2014, by Ballantine Books , the novel tells the story of Katie Clay, head chef at a prospering restaurant named Seconds, who obtains the ability to fix her past mistakes by writing them down in a notebook, eating a mushroom, and falling asleep.

  5. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    1.44 minutes, or 86.4 seconds. Also marketed as a ".beat" by the Swatch corporation. moment: 1/40 solar hour (90 s on average) Medieval unit of time used by astronomers to compute astronomical movements, length varies with the season. [4] Also colloquially refers to a brief period of time. centiday 0.01 d (1 % of a day) 14.4 minutes, or 864 ...

  6. Second - Wikipedia

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    Fractions of a second are usually denoted in decimal notation, for example 2.01 seconds, or two and one hundredth seconds. Multiples of seconds are usually expressed as minutes and seconds, or hours, minutes and seconds of clock time, separated by colons, such as 11:23:24, or 45:23 (the latter notation can give rise to ambiguity, because the ...

  7. Picosecond - Wikipedia

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    A picosecond (abbreviated as ps) is a unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) equal to 10 −12 or 11 000 000 000 000 (one trillionth) of a second.That is one trillionth, or one millionth of one millionth of a second, or 0.000 000 000 001 seconds.

  8. Seconds (1966 film) - Wikipedia

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    Seconds was released on home video for the first time in May 1997. [22] The film was released on DVD on January 8, 2002, [23] and later went out of print. [24] The Criterion Collection released a newly restored version of Seconds on DVD and Blu-ray on August 13, 2013. [10] [25]

  9. Seconds pendulum - Wikipedia

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    The seconds pendulum (also called the Royal pendulum), 0.994 m (39.1 in) long, in which each swing takes one second, became widely used in quality clocks. The long narrow clocks built around these pendulums, first made by William Clement around 1680, became known as grandfather clocks. The increased accuracy resulting from these developments ...