Sentence examples for twentieth of a second from inspiring English sources

A user primes the device's pump for a second; the trigger button delivers the pent-up energy in a twentieth of a second, propelling at supersonic speeds an airburst that disperses the powder into the chamber.

Betting the consensus second pick netted him a sporty new Volvo, which was almost as exhilarating as the twentieth of a second during which the horse crossed the wire.

For one-twentieth of a second, hold your camera steady".

By comparison, the deepest, lowest notes that humans can hear have a period of about one-twentieth of a second.

Searching for "Madonna," for instance, spawns a staccato string of song excerpts, some as short as one-twentieth of a second.

Electrophysiological studies have shown that the magnocellular path does not operate properly in dyslexics: it is one-twentieth of a second slower in its response than in normal subjects.

Over time, Ekman did find that one particular characteristic could prove useful — microexpressions, or incredibly fast facial movements that last, on average, somewhere between one-fifteenth and one-twentieth of a second and are exceedingly difficult to control consciously.

For instance, Dr. Gonick noted, the entire text and multimedia contents of a CD-ROM encyclopedia could be downloaded over the network in six seconds -- and the collected works of Shakespeare in one-twentieth of a second.

It only lives for a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second".

(Fifty millionths of a second).

Timing, once done in fifths of a second and then in tenths, now is done in hundredths of a second.