The actual movement of any particular air molecule in the case of a sound wave is probably very small, and reckoned in millionths of an inch.
"Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy"
John Ambrose Fleming
About 1810, he invented a technique for producing platinum wire as fine as a few millionths of an inch in diameter, that has since been known as "Wollaston wire."
"The Earliest Electromagnetic Instruments"
Robert A. Chipman
He could not see them, but he knew that, behind him, lay the other nine ships of the flight, in column, spaced so close that an error in calculation of but a few millionths of a second would have caused disaster.
"Generals Help Themselves"
M. C. Pease