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What do you call “one hundredth of a second”?
As in:
He broke the world record of 14.05
I tried searching Wikipedia and ended up with centisecond. It sounds so scientific. What is it called in colloquial English?
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What determines whether a numerical prefix is allowable for a unit? [closed]
The prefix centi- means 10-2.
But while centimetre is common, I have never heard of a centiwatt or a centisecond.
The prefix Mega- means 106. Hence Megabytes exist. So why do we not have Megametres?
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