yottasecond

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word yottasecond. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word yottasecond, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say yottasecond in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word yottasecond you have here. The definition of the word yottasecond will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofyottasecond, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: yotta-second

English

Etymology

From yotta- +‎ second.

Noun

yottasecond (plural yottaseconds)

  1. (metrology) An SI unit of time equal to 1024 seconds. Symbol: Ys
    • 2000 October 31, Joe Harrison <[email protected]>, “Re: Bt openworld limitations .. post `em here”, in uk.telecom.broadband (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:
      Trades Descriptions Act... "always on" presumably means 100.00 % uptime for the rest of infinity with nary a yottasecond's downtime.
    • 2009 February 20, Larry Wall <[email protected]>, “Re: r25445 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library”, in perl.perl6.language (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:
      Basically, I want yottaseconds and yoctoyears calculated with the same datatype for normal time.
    • 2009 April 3, <[email protected]>, “Re: The first rule of marriage”, in soc.religion.quaker,alt.stupidity (Usenet), message-ID <3ff2d63e-89dd-4c2d-bf14-995ec7088b92@y13g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>:
      12.7 furlongs per fortnight in parsecs per yottasecond

Usage notes

  • Not currently used in scientific literature. Occasionally used informally to denote a very long time, an age.