What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Seconds vs Millisecond - What's the difference?

seconds | millisecond |

As nouns the difference between seconds and millisecond

is that seconds is plural of lang=en while millisecond is one one-thousandth of a second. Symbol: ms.

As a verb seconds

is third-person singular of second.

seconds

English

Noun

(head)
    • There are sixty seconds in a minute.
  • A second serving of food for one person.
    • ''There is plenty of pie left, if you have room for seconds .
  • An item of clothing that has failed quality control and is sold at a discount
    • It was marked as seconds , but I can't find anything wrong with it.
  • Any article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; especially, a coarse or inferior kind of flour.

    • Synonyms

    * (second serving ): second helping

    Verb

    (head)
  • (second)
    • ----

    millisecond

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One one-thousandth of a second. Symbol: ms
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Robert L. Dorit , title=Rereading Darwin , volume=100, issue=1, page=23 , magazine= citation , passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
    The suggestion that pulsars were rotating neutron stars was put forth independently by Thomas Gold and Franco Pacini in 1968, and was soon proven beyond reasonable doubt by the discovery of a pulsar with a very short (33-millisecond) pulse period in the Crab nebula. (w)