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femtosecond

femtosecond
 n.— «The shortest visible and infrared laser pulses are typically just a few femtoseconds…in duration and contain just a few cycles of the laser field.» —“Beating the femtosecond limit” Physics Web (Bristol, U.K.) Feb. 21, 2001. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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