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.
The millisecond is one of several increasingly small units used to measure time. In these chronological ranges, it becomes more difficult to identify technological ability and make these extremely short time frames relevant to evaluation. A millisecond can be used to assess computing activity in many ways.