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".
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