Millisekunneille

Millisekunneille is the allative plural form of the Finnish noun millisekunti, meaning milliseconds. Millisekunti refers to one thousandth of a second, and its plural nominative form is millisekunnit. The suffix -ille marks the allative case in Finnish, which expresses direction toward or destination. Therefore, millisekunneille translates roughly as “to the milliseconds” or “toward the milliseconds.”

This form appears mainly in linguistic descriptions or specialized technical writing where time is discussed as multiple discrete milliseconds, such as when talking about timing targets, latency budgets, or precision requirements that involve several milliseconds rather than a single millisecond. In everyday Finnish, more common constructions are used to express similar ideas, such as millisekunnin tarkkuudella (to the precision of a millisecond) or simply referring to milliseconds or seconds with other grammatical cases.

Relation to the SI unit system is straightforward: one millisecond equals 1/1000 of a second, and the term is built from milli- (10^-3) and sekunti (second). The broader family includes other subdivisions of time, such as mikrosekunti (microsecond) and nanosekunti (nanosecond).

Etymology and usage notes: the word is formed from milli- and sekunti with Finnish nominal inflection, and its use is largely confined to contexts that require a plural, directional time reference. See also millisekunti, sekunti, mikrosekunti, nanosekunti for related terms.