Tertie (unit of time)

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The tertie is an outdated unit of time . A Tertie one sixtieth of a second (16 2 / 3  ms). The name comes from the Latin pars minuta tertia , in German "third small part (of the hour)" and is part of the systematics "1 hour = 60 minutae primae, 1 min prim = 60 minutae secundae, 1 min sec = 60 minutae tertiae, 1 min ter = 60 minutae quartae ".

  • 1 tertie = 1/60 second

See also

literature

  • Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon. Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim, Vienna, Zurich 1986, ISBN 978-3-41102-148-2 , p. 315.

Individual proof

  1. ↑ L. Niesiolowski-Gawin: Timepiece for running time display . In: H. Geiger, K. Scheel (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Physik . 2 elementary units and their measurement. Julius Springer, 1926, p. 212 ( google.de ).