Diphtheria. An acute infectious disease of humans caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Classically, the disease is characterized by low-grade fever, sore throat, and a pseudomembrane covering the tonsils and pharynx.
Statistician / Economist formerly employed in various Government Departments in the UK, freelance mathematics and statistics tutor since retiring in 2008, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. 1 second = 100 centiseconds. To help you remember, 1 meter = 100 centimeters and centi- anything is the same.
nanosecond - one billionth (10^-9) of a second; one thousandth of a microsecond. time unit, unit of time - a unit for measuring time periods. picosecond - one trillionth (10^-12) of a second; one thousandth of a nanosecond. microsecond - one millionth (10^-6) of a second; one thousandth of a millisecond. Translations.