What is one tenth of a second?

Answer 1

what is 1/10 of a second

Answer 2

1/10th of a second is called a "decisecond" : : : Not to be confused with 10 seconds which is called a "decasecond" . . . However in common parlance, simply saying "Tenth of a Second" is considered quite acceptable for nearly all applications.

Example: "She ran the 40 meter dash in 4 and 3 tenths of second" is far more common than "She ran a 4 and 3 decisecond 40 meter dash" almost no one uses the term decisecond, (spell check doesn't even recognize it!) "tenth of a second" is favored in almost all applications of use.

But decisecond is technically the correct SI term for 1/10th of a second.

Answer 3

One tenth of a second is a unit of time measurement equal to 0.1 seconds. It is commonly used in sports timing, scientific experiments, and various other applications where precise timing is required. In decimal form, one tenth of a second is equivalent to 100 milliseconds.