Associations to the word «Jiffy»

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.
William Butler Yeats