nanossegundo
Portuguese, noun
nanossegundo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “nanosecond (one billionth of a second)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “medida de tempo equivalente a um bilionésimo de segundo, e cuja abreviação é ns”.
What does nanossegundo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinenanosecond (one billionth of a second)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. medida de tempo equivalente a um bilionésimo de segundo, e cuja abreviação é ns
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of nanossegundo
- nanossegundos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to nanossegundo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nanossegundo in Portuguese?
nanossegundo appears about once in every 37 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).