Millisecond (ms) Conversions
A millisecond (symbol: ms) is a thousandth of a second. A unit of 10 milliseconds may be called a centisecond, and one of 100 milliseconds a decisecond, but these names are rarely used.
One millisecond contains 1000 microseconds. There are 1000 milliseconds in a second.
- 1 millisecond – the time it takes for a normal flash in a camera to finish.
- 1 millisecond – time taken for sound to travel 34 cm
- 1.000692286 milliseconds – time taken for light to travel 300 km in a vacuum
- 2 milliseconds – half life of hassium-265
- 3 milliseconds – a housefly’s wing flap
- 3.4 milliseconds – half life of meitnerium-266
- 5 milliseconds – a honeybee’s wing flap