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Term for “sum of durations”
While writing to a friend, I attempted to ask which web browser they used most. In the end, I asked which browser they used “more frequently”, but this was not the true object of my curiosity. By ...
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What is a word that means “a span of six months”?
Is there a word that means "a span of six months"? That is, I want to connote a stretch of time that lasts half a year, not an event that happens every six months.
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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 is the unit measure used to detect magnetic indentations in a hard drive?
As the title states, what is the unit measure used to detect magnetic indentations in a hard drive?
To clarify, what I mean by indentation is, what is measured to determine if a byte is a 1 or 0?
