yottasecond
See also: yotta-second
English
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editNoun
edityottasecond (plural yottaseconds)
- (metrology) An SI unit of time equal to 1024 seconds. Symbol: Ys
- 2000 October 31, Joe Harrison <joe.harrison@ANT15P4M.teamware.co.uk>, “Re: Bt openworld limitations .. post `em here”, in uk.telecom.broadband[1] (Usenet), message-ID <8tms8c$2arb$1@news.icl.se>:
- Trades Descriptions Act... "always on" presumably means 100.00 % uptime for the rest of infinity with nary a yottasecond's downtime.
Usage notes
edit- Not currently used in scientific literature. Occasionally used informally to denote a very long time, an age.