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Meaning:

Noun:

  • colloquial A very short, unspecified length of time.
  • computers 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.
  • electronics The time between alternating current power cycles (1/60 or 1/50 of a second)
  • physics The time taken for light to travel one centimetre in a vacuum (sometimes one foot, or sometimes the width of a nucleon)

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