Word Origin & History. amber mid-14c., ambergris, from O.Fr. ambre, from M.L. ambar, from Arabic 'anbar amber, a word brought home to Europe by the Crusaders. The sense was extended to fossil resin c.1400, which has become the main sense as the use of ambergris has waned. This formerly was known as white or yellow amber. In Fr., they are distinguished as ambre gris and amber jaune. Cf. also electric.
It depends on how closely he needs to describe the location. One degree of latitude is one nautical mile or about 6000 feet, so one second is about 100 feet. The fractions of a second are pretty useless, but degrees, minutes, and seconds are reasonable.
There are 1000 milliseconds in a second. 1 Seconds is equal to 1000 Milliseconds. 1 s = 1000 ms. A unit of time known as second is one of the base units of time measurement in SI. In ancient times a second was defined in terms to the duration of a solar day, and in modern times this unit is defined regarding the period of the Earth revolving around the Sun.