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Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
Patrick Demarchelier

Meaning of "half-second" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HALF-SECOND

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HALF-SECOND

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Half-Second is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HALF-SECOND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of half-second in the English dictionary

The definition of half-second in the dictionary is 1/120 of a minute of time. Other definition of half-second is a very short period of time; moment.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HALF-SECOND

half-remembered
half-rhyme
half-right
half-round chisel
half-round file
half-ruined
half-section
half-serious
half-seriously
half-shut
half-silvered
half-sister
half-size
half-sleeve
half-slip
half-smile
half-sole
half-staff
half-starved
half-step

WORDS THAT END LIKE HALF-SECOND

abscond
arc second
centimetre-gram-second
femtosecond
foot-pound-second
leap second
metre-kilogram-second
microsecond
millisecond
nanosecond
picosecond
second
sixty-second
split second
split-second
yoctosecond
zeptosecond

Synonyms and antonyms of half-second in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «half-second» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HALF-SECOND

Find out the translation of half-second to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of half-second from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «half-second» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

半秒
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

medio segundo
570 millions of speakers

English

half-second
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आधा दूसरा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشوط الثاني
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

полсекунды
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

meio segundo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অর্ধ দ্বিতীয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

les demi-secondes
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Separuh kedua
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

halbe Sekunde
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

0.5秒
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

0.5 초
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Setengah detik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nửa thứ hai
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அரை இரண்டாவது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अर्धा-दुसरा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yarım saniyelik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mezzo secondo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pół sekundy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

півсекунди
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

jumatate de secunda
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μισο - δευτερολέπτων
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

half- tweede
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

halv - sekund
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

halvt sekund
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of half-second

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HALF-SECOND»

The term «half-second» is regularly used and occupies the 60.534 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HALF-SECOND» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about half-second

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QUOTES WITH «HALF-SECOND»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word half-second.
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Patrick Demarchelier
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HALF-SECOND»

Discover the use of half-second in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to half-second and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The first half second: the microgenesis and temporal ...
Empirical and theoretical foundations for the study of the temporal dynamics of mechanisms contributing to unconscious and conscious processing of visual information; from computational, psychological, neuropsychological, and ...
Haluk Öğmen, Bruno G. Breitmeyer, 2006
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Code of Federal Regulations
(3) Locate and record the 15 highest half-second readings during the acceleration mode of each dynamometer cycle. (4) Locate and record the five highest half-second readings during the lugging mode of each dynamometer cycle.
‎2009
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L.S.A., List of C.F.R. Sections Affected
(iv) Additional means other than milliammeters which indicate when and only when x-rays are being generated, unless the x-ray generation period is less than one-half second in which case the indicators shall be activated for one-half second.
‎2005
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16 CFR Commercial Practices: CFR Parts 0-999
(3) Locate and record the 15 highest half-second readings during the acceleration mode of each dynamometer cycle. (4) Locate and record the five highest half-second readings during the lugging mode of each dynamometer cycle.
Office of The Federal Register, 2013
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The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America
(3) Locate and record the 15 highest half-second readings during the acceleration mode of each dynamometer cycle. (4) Locate and record the five highest half-second readings during the lugging mode of each dynamometer cycle.
‎2006
6
Precalculus
Make a table of speeds starting from time t : 0, the instant when the driver applies the brakes, including every half-second until the car comes to rest. d. What is the slowest the car is traveling in the first half-second after the brakes are applied?
J. Faires, James DeFranza, 2011
7
Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation
Its anomaly is smoothed over retrospectively to fit conscious requirements of continuity and linear causality.5 What happens during the missing half second? A second experiment gave some hints. Brain waves of healthy volunteers were ...
Brian Massumi, 2002
8
Is Your Life Worth Half A Second
passenger of vehicle A. If the driver B had responded a half second later, the speed of the vehicle at point X would be slightly over 20 mph. INCREASING RESPONSE BY } SECOND WHEN STEERING jm-JOIT m In Figure 2, the driver of ...
Herbert Thomas Simon, 2010
9
MC68HC12 an Introduction: Software and Hardware Interfacing
68HC12 5V 3000 To turn an LED on or off, we need to output appropriate values to Port P. A two-layer loop is used to create a half-second delay. The inner loop creates a 1 00-ms delay whereas the outer loop repeats the inner loop five times  ...
Han-Way Huang, 2003
10
Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop
Because we're in the Ripple tool, we're rippling it backward one-half second. 4. Click on the right side of the edit point at the start of Village2. Remember that you can use the U key to toggle from rippling one side, to roll edit, and to ripple the ...
Tom Wolsky, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HALF-SECOND»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term half-second is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ninth-Ranked 51.73 in 100 Butterfly Has USA's Tom Shields Moving …
A few weeks out from his first appearance at the World Champs, Shields is less than a half-second off his personal best of 51.29, produced last ... «SwimVortex.com, Jul 15»
2
Notes from Caps development camp: Second-rounder Jonas …
... when Colorado forward Matt Duchene entered the zone a solid half-second before the puck did, but anticipated it being used less frequently ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
3
The real origin story behind how Rep. John Lewis became THE hit …
Just then, this living legend hopped for a half-second and pivoted toward me, to reveal just how much he'd observed at these events. «Washington Post, Jul 15»
4
Eder wins mids, mid-mods features
Kisling's lead was a half-second just as the white flag was about to wave, but DJ Keeler's spin forced a green-white-checkered dash. «Ashland Daily Press, Jul 15»
5
VIDEO: Blast that unnerved Zach Johnson Sunday
Had the blast happened a half-second later, there's no telling where his putt would have stopped. But he was able to stop his backswing. «The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines, Jul 15»
6
Boyce tops Romano in 100 free to close Austin Sectional
Boyce jumped out to a half-second lead at the turn and never let up, finishing in 55.74 to Romano's 56.28. Romano, though, was coming off of ... «SwimSwam, Jul 15»
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UPDATED: Taylor brothers take Corvette to CTMP victory lane
... Grand Prix Presented by Hawk Performance at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park by less than a half-second in the only appearance outside the ... «Motorsport.com, Jul 15»
8
Márquez, back at his best
That was until, with four laps to go, Dani managed to build up a half-second lead. The World Championship leader gave up. Despite everything ... «MARCA.com, Jul 15»
9
You Can Now Post HD Quality Videos to Vine
The famous six-second (actually, six-and-a-half-second) Twitter video service, Vine, just updated its app to make it easier to search for popular ... «Clapway, Jul 15»
10
Milwaukee race day set-up: Full schedule of action
... CFH Racing topped the speed chart with a lap of 169.626 mph (21.525 seconds). The top 14 cars were separated by a half-second. Results. «Racer, Jul 15»

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