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Ultrafast vs Ultrashort - What's the difference?

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Ultrashort is a related term of ultrafast.



As adjectives the difference between ultrafast and ultrashort

is that ultrafast is very fast, or of very short duration; especially concerning events that take place in femtosecond or picosecond timescales while ultrashort is very short.

As a noun ultrashort is

a bond with an extremely short term, typically less than a year.

ultrafast

English

Adjective

(wikipedia ultrafast) (en adjective)
  • Very fast, or of very short duration; especially concerning events that take place in femtosecond or picosecond timescales.

    • ultrashort

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Very short.
    • ultrashort skirts
  • (science) Extremely short in duration, typically on the femtosecond scale
    • an ultrashort pulse
  • (physics, of a wave) Having a wavelength of between 1 and 10 metree
  • (finance) Having a very short term of investment, typically less than a year
    • an ultrashort bond

    Synonyms

    * (very short) megashort

    Related terms

    *ultrafast *hypershort *supershort

    See also

    *(Ultrashort pulse)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (finance) A bond with an extremely short term, typically less than a year
  • *{{quote-news, 1995, February 19, Carole Gould, Mutual Funds: Ultrashort but Long on Choices, The New York Times citation
    • , passage=Ultrashorts were a way for the fund industry to appeal to bank customers, by offering an investment whose price did not vary much but whose yield was higher than that on certificates of deposit.}}