English

Pronunciation
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɪfi|-ɪfi

Noun
jiffy (plural jiffies)

1. colloquial A very short, unspecified length of time.

#:I'll be back in a jiffy.

1. (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.
2. physics The time taken for light to travel one centimetre in a vacuum (sometimes one foot, or sometimes the width of a nucleon)
3. electronics The time between alternating current power cycles (1/60 or 1/50 of a second)

Jiffy

1. A line of baking mixes manufactured by the Chelsea Milling Company

Synonyms
(short length of time):
*(standard): instant, minute, moment, second, trice
*(colloquial): mo, sec, tick

Translations

trans-top|short length of time
French: instant#French|instant m, moment#French|moment m, seconde#French|seconde f
German: Moment m, Augenblick m
Italian: attimo m
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trans-top|in computing
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