After a few milliseconds in the sun, my skin turns an agonising red.
McLeod says: "What matters crucially is just a tiny time window of about fifty milliseconds in all.
Imanol Harinordoquy took a couple of catches at the lineout, one-handed reaches that told of golden days, but they were milliseconds in the long minutes.
The same scientists, based at the Alpha collaboration in Cern, were the first to trap antihydrogen last year when they created and held on to 38 atoms of the stuff for 172 milliseconds in a strong magnetic field.
Perfect Forward Secrecy does add a slight delay to a user's initial connection to Twitter — about 150 milliseconds in the United States and up to a second in countries like Brazil that are farther away from Twitter's servers.
Sound travels about 5,000 feet (1,500 metres) per second in water, so that an accuracy of a few milliseconds in measurements of the time intervals gives depths within a few feet.
These venues deal most times in milliseconds in latency.
The response time for the deleting requests took 121.9 milliseconds in average.
The response time for the updating took 371,6 milliseconds in average.
The whole system was experimentally tested for compensation of power fluctuation within milliseconds in a dynamic power system simulation laboratory.
But gaining even a few milliseconds in a program trade can be the difference between making money and losing it.
