jiffy
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
jiffy (plural jiffies)
- (colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time. [from 1780.]
- I’ll be back in a jiffy.
- 1780, The Town and Country Magazine, vol. 12, p. 88 ↗, February 1780.
- Most of the limbs of the law do every thing in a jiffy; but ask what they mean, and they would be as much puzzled, as if you required of them the explanantion of a common act of parliament.
- (computing) A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer – historically, and by convention, 0.01 of a second, but some computer operating systems use other values.
- (electronics) The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second).
- (physics) The time taken for light to travel a specified distance in a vacuum, usually one centimetre, but sometimes one foot or the width of a nucleon.
- (UK) Short for jiffy bag#English|jiffy bag, a padded envelope.
- (short, unspecified length of time)
- jif
- jiff
- French: instant, moment, seconde
- German: Moment, Augenblick
- Italian: attimo, baleno
- Portuguese: instante, momento
- Russian: один момент
- Spanish: en un pispás, en un periquete, en un santiamén
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