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1. (n.) jiffy
a very short time; moment; instant:
to get dressed in a jiffy.
Etymology: (1770–80)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute
a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
"if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) jiffy
a moment; an instant; as, I will be ready in a jiffy
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. jiffy
1. The duration of one tick of the system clock on your computer
(see tick). Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in
the U.S. and Canada, 1/50 most other places), but more recently 1/100 sec
has become common. “The swapper runs every 6 jiffies” means
that the virtual memory management routine is executed once for every 6
ticks of the clock, or about ten times a second. 2. Confusingly, the term is sometimes also used for a 1-millisecond
wall time interval. 3. Even more confusingly, physicists semi-jokingly use
‘jiffy’ to mean the time required for light to travel one foot
in a vacuum, which turns out to be close to one
nanosecond. Other physicists use the term for the
quantum-nechanical lower bound on meaningful time lengths, 4. Indeterminate time from a few seconds to forever. “I'll do
it in a jiffy” means certainly not now and possibly never. This is
a bit contrary to the more widespread use of the word. Oppose
nano. See also
Real Soon Now.
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Sense: a moment
I'll be back in a jiffy.
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 Afrikaans: japtrap, ommesientjie, go |
 Arabic: لَحْظَه، في لَحْظَه |
 Bulgarian: миг |
 Brazilian: instante |
 Czech: okamžik |
 German: der Augenblick |
 Danish: i løbet af nul komma fem |
 Greek: στιγμή |
 Spanish: instante, santiamén |
 Estonian: silmapilk |
 Farsi: لحظه؛ آن |
 Finnish: hetki |
 French: en moins de deux |
 Hebrew: רֶגָע |
 Hindi: पल |
 Croatian: časak, tren |
 Hungarian: pillanat |
 Indonesian: waktu sesaat, sebentar |
 Icelandic: augnablik |
 Italian: momento, istante |
 Japanese: 瞬間 |
 Korean: 잠시 |
 Lithuanian: akimirksnis |
 Latvian: []mirklis |
 Malay: sekejap lagi |
 Dutch: ogenblikje |
 Norwegian: øyeblikk, blunk |
 Polish: momencik |
 Persian: لحظه؛ آن |
 Pashto: شيبه، سترګرپ |
 Portuguese: instante |
 Romanian: moment |
 Russian: миг |
 Slovak: okamih |
 Slovenian: trenutek |
 Serbian: tren |
 Swedish: ögonblick, nafs |
 Thai: ชั่วเวลาประเดี๋ยว; ชั่วคร |
 Turkish: an, lâhza |
 Taiwanese: 一會兒 |
 Ukrainian: мить |
 Urdu: تھوڑا وقفہ |
 Vietnamese: chốc lát |
 Chinese: 一会儿 |
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