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Also known as 1 E-15 s, fs

A femtosecond is a unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) equal to 10 or of a second; that is, one quadrillionth, or one millionth of one billionth, of a second.

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Unit.name
femtosecond
Unit.symbol
fs
Unit.standard
SI
Unit.quantity
time
Unit.units1
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conversion to SI unit
0.000000000000001
unit symbol
fs
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A femtosecond is a unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) equal to 10 or of a second; that is, one quadrillionth, or one millionth of one billionth, of a second.

A femtosecond is to a second, as a second is to approximately 31.69 million years.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “femtosecond” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.