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What is the smallest unit of time?


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  1. The smallest unit of time is second.
  2. One second is defined as the time taken by the radiation from a cesium-133 atom to complete 9,192,631,770 cycles of oscillations.
  3. 1minute=60seconds1hour=3600seconds

Hence, second is the smallest fundamental unit of time.


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