centisecond

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A metric unit of time equal to one hundredth of a second.

This fractional time unit represents 10 milliseconds. It is most frequently encountered in sports timing, stopwatch displays, and basic mechanical relays. In electronics and computing, engineers generally skip this prefix entirely, preferring milliseconds or microseconds for latency and cycle times.

Heard on the job

The sensor triggers a shutdown if the relay stays open for more than five centiseconds.