Jiffy

Noun

 * 1)  A very short, unspecified length of time.
 * I'll be back in a jiffy.
 * 1)  A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer; historically, and by convention, 0.01 seconds, but some operating systems use other values.
 * 2)  The time taken for light to travel one centimetre in a vacuum (sometimes one foot, or sometimes the width of a nucleon)
 * 3)  The time between alternating current power cycles (1/60 or 1/50 of a second)

Synonyms

 * (short length of time):
 * (standard): instant, minute, moment, second, trice
 * : mo, sec, tick
 * jif
 * jiff

Thesaurus
breath, breathing, coup, crack, flash, half a jiffy, half a mo, half a second, half a shake, instant, jiff, microsecond, millisecond, minute, moment, sec, second, shake, split second, stroke, tick, trice, twink, twinkle, twinkling, twitch, two shakes, wink

Translations

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