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To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between '10⁻³ seconds' and 10⁻² seconds (1 millisecond to 10 milliseconds). A 'millisecond' (ms) is one thousandth of a second. ''See also'' times of other orders of magnitude.

★ shorter times

★ 1 millisecond (1 ms) – cycle time for frequency 1 kHz

★ 1 millisecond – duration of light for typical photo flash strobe

★ 1 millisecond – repetition interval of GPS C/A PN code

★ 1.000692286 milliseconds – time taken for light to travel 300 km in a vacuum

★ 2 milliseconds – half life of hassium-265

★ 2.27 milliseconds – cycle time for the A above middle C in music (440 Hz); if a tuning device for musical instruments generates just one tone, it is probably this tone

★ 3 milliseconds – a housefly’s wing flap

★ 3.4 milliseconds – half life of meitnerium-266

★ 5 milliseconds – a honeybee’s wing flap

★ 8 milliseconds – camera shutter speed at setting ''125''

★ 9 milliseconds – typical maximum seek time for a 7200rpm hard disk

★ longer times