“His expression lightened for a millisecond before it dropped back into the deepening gloom.”

“Most millisecond pulsars hover around the 300 revolutions per second mark, and the fastest spinning pulsar ever detected clocked in at 641 rps.”

“The sides of his lips curled upwards ever so slightly that if you had even blinked for a millisecond you would have missed it.”

“In contrast, disk systems provide nearly instantaneous access, measured in just milliseconds.”

“But figuring out the lengths of days of yore isn't as easy as subtracting two milliseconds for every century.”

“Early speech-recognition systems were discrete speech recognizers requiring users to pause between each word for 200 milliseconds.”