Associations to the word «Jiffy»
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Wiktionary
JIFFY, noun. (colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time.
JIFFY, noun. (computing) 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.
JIFFY, noun. (electronics) The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second)
JIFFY, noun. (physics) The time taken for light to travel one centimetre in a vacuum (sometimes one foot, or sometimes the width of a nucleon)
JIFFY BAG, noun. A thick padded envelope for sending objects which could be damaged in normal envelopes.
JIFFY BAGS, noun. Plural of Jiffy bag
Dictionary definition
JIFFY, noun. 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".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.