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Word: jiffy
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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)
Source: Wiktionary
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