Examples of “nanosecond” in a Sentence

noun A unit of time equal to one billionth of a second.

• The processor completes an operation in a few nanoseconds.
• Since the tiny magnetic domains have to travel only submolecular distances, it is possible to read and write magnetic regions with different polarization as quickly as a single nanosecond — far faster than existing storage technologies. — John Markoff, Redefining the Architecture of Memory (2007)

noun An informal way of saying "an extremely short moment."

• He hesitated for a nanosecond before answering.