One millisecond is one-thousandth of a second.

To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 10⁻³ seconds and 10⁻² seconds (1.0 to 10 milliseconds). See also times of other orders of magnitude.

• Shorter times
• 1.0 milliseconds – cycle time for frequency 1 kHz
• 1 ms – duration of light for typical photo flash strobe
• 1 ms – repetition interval of GPS C/A PN code
• 1.000692286 ms – time taken for light to travel 300 km in a vacuum
• 2 ms – half life of hassium-265
• 2.27 ms – 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 ms – a housefly’s wing flap
• 3.4 ms – half life of meitnerium-266
• 5 ms – a honeybee’s wing flap
• 8 ms – camera shutter speed at setting 125
• 9 ms – typical maximum seek time for a 7200rpm hard disk
• Longer times

Orders of magnitude (time)

1 E-3 s | Milliseconde | 1 E-3 s | Millisekund | Millisekund | 毫秒