Meanings of short timescales in English

However, these techniques often are limited to short timescales and low-energy conformations.

Yet, interrelationships between water availability and plant use on short timescales are difficult to quantify and remain poorly understood.

On short timescales, the OH-bond in water behaves similar to an inertial rotor and its anisotropy is lower than that of a water molecule.

Correspondingly, two loci encoding Type I restriction-modification systems able to change their specificity over short timescales through intragenomic recombination are ubiquitous across the collection.