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PRONUNCIATION OF YOCTOSECOND

yoctosecond  [ˈjɒktəʊˌsekənd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF YOCTOSECOND

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Yoctosecond 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 YOCTOSECOND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Orders of magnitude (time)

An "order of magnitude" is a loose description of the relationship between two amounts. In common usage, the scale is usually the base10 or base−10 exponent being applied to an amount, making the order of magnitude 10 times greater or smaller. As the differences are measured in factors of 10, a logarithmic scale is applied. In terms of time, the relationship between the smallest limit of time, the Planck time, and the next order of magnitude larger is 10.

Definition of yoctosecond in the English dictionary

The definition of yoctosecond in the dictionary is a unit of time equalling one septillionth or 1024 of a second.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH YOCTOSECOND


blackened
ˈblækənd
darkened
ˈdɑːkənd
fecund
ˈfiːkənd
femtosecond
ˈfɛmtəʊˌsɛkənd
infecund
ɪnˈfiːkənd
jocund
ˈdʒɒkənd
lichened
ˈlaɪkənd
microsecond
ˈmaɪkrəʊˌsɛkənd
millisecond
ˈmɪlɪˌsɛkənd
nanosecond
ˈnænəʊˌsɛkənd
picosecond
ˈpiːkəʊˌsɛkənd
rubicund
ˈruːbɪkənd
second
ˈsɛkənd
sixty-second
ˌsɪkstɪˈsɛkənd
split-second
ˌsplɪtˈsekənd
unawakened
ˌʌnəˈweɪkənd
unquickened
ʌnˈkwɪkənd
unthickened
ʌnˈθɪkənd
unwakened
ʌnˈweɪkənd
unweakened
ʌnˈwiːkənd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE YOCTOSECOND

yo-yo
yo-yo dieting
yob
yobbery
yobbish
yobbishly
yobbism
yobbo
Yobe
yock
yod
yodel
yodeler
yodelled
yodeller
yodelling
yodh
yodle
yodler
yoga

WORDS THAT END LIKE YOCTOSECOND

abscond
almond
arc second
beyond
blond
bond
centimetre-gram-second
correspond
diamond
fond
foot-pound-second
half-second
Hammond
leap second
metre-kilogram-second
pond
respond
Richmond
split second
zeptosecond

Synonyms and antonyms of yoctosecond in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «yoctosecond» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF YOCTOSECOND

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

Translator English - Chinese

yoctosecond
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

yoctosecond
570 millions of speakers

English

yoctosecond
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

yoctosecond
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

yoctosecond
280 millions of speakers

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yoctosecond
278 millions of speakers

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yoctosecond
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

yoctosecond
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

yoctosecond
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Yoctosecond
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Yoktosekundenbereich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

yoctosecond
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

yoctosecond
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Yoctosecond
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

yoctosecond
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

yoctosecond
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Yoctosecond
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yoctosecond
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

yoctosecond
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

yoctosecond
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

yoctosecond
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

yoctosecond
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

yoctosecond
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

yoctosecond
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

yoctosecond
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

yoctosecond
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of yoctosecond

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «YOCTOSECOND»

The term «yoctosecond» is barely ever used and occupies the 205.722 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about yoctosecond

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «YOCTOSECOND»

Discover the use of yoctosecond in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to yoctosecond and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Rubix Apocalypse
Yoctosecond. Suppose that a cataclysmic event could take place and we discovered its occurrence through one of the many telescopes and satellites that we have circling around the earth. It is valuable to be able to calculate things to a  ...
Vladimir M. Mavar, 2011
2
Universe
Oft'me ' A ten-trillionth of a yoctosecond ,1 10“3 seconds THE GRAND UNIFIED THEORY ERA "' During this era, matter and energy were completely interchangeable. Three of the fundamental forces of nature were still unified. strong nuclear ...
Martin Rees, 2012
3
Exactly what Happened
YOCTOSECOND A yoctosecond, equivalent to . OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOl seconds, is the smallest designated unit of time. Smidgen of plankton snagged in history's baleen, single brick in the Gotham of a second, eyelash in the ...
Joel Brouwer, 1999
4
Eyewitness Companions: Astronomy
... the so-called “Planck time,” the normal laws of physics did not apply. s u p e r f o r c e electromagnetic force electroweak force Grand Unified Force 60 miles (105 m/ 100 km) 18 billion trillion ̊F (1022 K / 10 billion trillion ̊C) 1 yoctosecond ...
Ian Ridpath, 2006
5
How Big is Big and How Small is Small: The Sizes of ...
Atimeof10 −24 s isalsocalled a yoctosecond. It takes lightabout half a yoctosecond (ys) to crossthe diameter of a proton and so it is not surprising that thisis the timescale for events insideof protonsandneutrons.TheW boson has a lifetime ...
Timothy Paul Smith, 2013
6
100 Ideas that Changed the World
This contradicts the now wellaccepted Big Bang theory, which states that in the first breath of the Universe's life (a mere hundred billionths of a yoctosecond – that's 10-31 or 0.0000000000000000000000000000001 seconds), it grew from an ...
Jheni Osman, 2011
7
Science: The Definitive Visual Guide
... the size of a football field within a tiny fraction of a second. A hundred-billionth of a yoctosecond “(10'35 seconds) __ ' Early particles include quarks, gluons, and bosons Lemaitre's suggestion, in 1931, that the Universe's origin ...
‎2009
8
The Faith of Scientists: In Their Own Words
Maybe the “inflation” that physicists postulate as occupying some fraction of the first yoctosecond of the universe's existence will turn out, when it is better understood, to be a cosmological crane to stand alongside Darwin's biological one.
Nancy K. Frankenberry, 2008
9
Hadron Collider Physics 2002: Proceedings of the 14th ...
... unique among the fundamental particles. Heavy top suggests that it could play some special role in electroweak symmetry breaking. The top quark lifetime is less than a yoctosecond which is shorter than the hadronization time of QCD.
Martin Erdmann, 2003
10
Flaming Embers: Literary Testimonies on Ageing and Desire
... to avoid estrangement in a limbo of speculative discourse. Time is not easy to define even though we have found ways of measuring it with precision bordering on the unimaginable; I mean that to speak of a millisecond, or a yoctosecond,1 is  ...
Nela Bureu Ramos, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «YOCTOSECOND»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term yoctosecond is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The 2014 science quiz tests your knowledge from angiosperms …
How long is a yoctosecond, the smallest unit of time that currently can be measured? 61. Which stable subatomic particle, found in all atomic nuclei, has a ... «The Age, Dec 14»
2
CERN collider could produce world's shortest yoctosecond-scale …
Unfortunately, conventional measurement techniques are much too slow to resolve flashes on a yoctosecond timescale. "That's why we make use of the ... «Laser Focus world, Nov 12»
3
CERN Detector to Measure Supershort Light Pulses
In the future, it is possible that yoctosecond light pulses could be applied to an established method of nuclear research experimentation involving the use of two ... «Photonics.com, Nov 12»
4
CERN finds dramatic particle reshaping that could push back the …
This quark-gluon plasma only exists for several yoctoseconds (10^-24 seconds) and can emit light pulses for the duration which carry valuable information about ... «Daily Mail, Nov 12»
5
CERN collider to become the world's fastest stopwatch?
However, conventional measurement techniques are much too slow to resolve flashes on a yoctosecond timescale. "That's why we make use of the Hanbury ... «Phys.Org, Nov 12»
6
Explained: Femtoseconds and attoseconds
But as technology continues to march forward, there may be more talk about zeptoseconds and yoctoseconds — or, going in the other direction, things such as ... «MIT News, Sep 12»
7
Movie Review: David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis Is A Strange …
... dissection into infinitesimal quantities – nanoseconds, yoctosecond – until science reveals that the present itself hardly exists as a measurable quantity. «D Magazine, Aug 12»
8
Book Review: This Book Is From The Future: A Journey Through …
The book begins by defining time from years to the yoctosecond which is beyond the shortest time measurable by any current machine or process. The authors ... «Blogcritics.org, Jun 12»
9
Using Topspin to Probe the Standard Model
In addition, this decay is so fast, a fraction of a yoctosecond s , that there is not enough time for the strong interaction to create more quarks that would obscure ... «Physics, May 12»
10
'God Particle', Higgs boson search area narrowing, CERN scientists …
Theories suggest the Higgs is created in collisions of subatomic particles, but it only exists for about a yoctosecond, or one-septillionth of a second. «Washington Post, Dec 11»

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