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jiffy
(encz) | jiffy,moment n: Zdeněk Brož |
Jiffy
(gcide) | Jiffy \Jif"fy\, n. [Perh. corrupt. fr. gliff.] [Written also
giffy.]
A moment; an instant; as, I will be ready in a jiffy.
[Colloq.] --J. & H. Smith.
[1913 Webster] |
jiffy
(wn) | jiffy
n 1: 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" [syn: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat,
instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling,
wink, New York minute] |
jiffy
(foldoc) | jiffy
1. The duration of one tick of the computer's {system
clock}. Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the US and
Canada, 1/50 most other places), but more recently 1/100 sec
has become common.
2. Confusingly, the term is sometimes also used for a
1-millisecond wall time interval. Even more confusingly,
physicists semi-jokingly use "jiffy" to mean the time required
for light to travel one foot in a vacuum, which turns out to
be close to one *nanosecond*.
[Jargon File]
(2002-03-02)
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jiffy
(jargon) | jiffy
n.
1. The duration of one tick of the system clock on your computer (see {tick
}). Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the U.S. and Canada, 1/50 most
other places), but more recently 1/100 sec has become common. “The swapper
runs every 6 jiffies” means that the virtual memory management routine is
executed once for every 6 ticks of the clock, or about ten times a second.
2. Confusingly, the term is sometimes also used for a 1-millisecond {wall
time} interval.
3. Even more confusingly, physicists semi-jokingly use ‘jiffy’ to mean the
time required for light to travel one foot in a vacuum, which turns out to
be close to one nanosecond. Other physicists use the term for the
quantum-nechanical lower bound on meaningful time lengths,
4. Indeterminate time from a few seconds to forever. “I'll do it in a jiffy
” means certainly not now and possibly never. This is a bit contrary to the
more widespread use of the word. Oppose nano. See also Real Soon Now.
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in a jiffy
(encz) | in a jiffy,za moment Zdeněk Brožin a jiffy,za okamžik Zdeněk Brož |
Jiffy
(gcide) | Jiffy \Jif"fy\, n. [Perh. corrupt. fr. gliff.] [Written also
giffy.]
A moment; an instant; as, I will be ready in a jiffy.
[Colloq.] --J. & H. Smith.
[1913 Webster] |
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