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  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)
       
       

  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 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_. 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.
  
  

  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.

  jiffy
       n : a very short time (as the time it takes the eye 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,
            split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York
           minute]

  jiffy
     n.
     (lb en colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time. (from
  1780.)

  Jiffy
     n.
     (alt form en Jiffy bag nodot=a).

  jiffy
     n.
     (lb en colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time. (from
  1780.)

  Jiffy
     n.
     (alt form en Jiffy bag nodot=a).

  jiffy
     n.
     (lb en colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time. (from
  1780.)

  Jiffy
     n.
     (alt form en Jiffy bag nodot=a).

  jiffy
     n.
     (lb en colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time. (from
  1780.)

  Jiffy
     n.
     (alt form en Jiffy bag nodot=a).

  jiffy
     Englanti n.
     tuokio

  Jiffy /dʒˈɪfi/
  اللحظة

  jiffy /dʒˈɪfi/ 
  moment

  jiffy /dʒˈɪfi/
  Augenblick  [kurzer] , Moment 
     Synonyms: instant, split second, shake
  

  jiffy //ˈd͡ʒɪ.fi// 
  tuokio
  very short, unspecified length of time

  jiffy /dʒˈɪfi/ 
  1. पल
        "Everything happened in such a jiffy that we didn't have time to think."

  jiff(y) /dʒˈɪf wˈaɪ/
  tren, časak

  jiffy /dʒˈɪfi/
  pillanat

  jiffy //ˈd͡ʒɪ.fi// 
  straks, øyeblikk
  very short, unspecified length of time

  jiffy /ˈʤɪfɪ/
    [nieform]  in a jiffy (:in :a :jiffy)
   - za momencik

  jiffy //ˈd͡ʒɪ.fi// 
  huj, momang, nafs, ögonblick
  very short, unspecified length of time

  
/ˈdʒɪfi/

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "jiffy":
     breath, breathing, coup, crack, flash, half a jiffy, half a mo,
     half a second, half a shake, instant, jiff, microsecond,
     millisecond, minute, moment, sec, second, shake, split second,
     stroke, tick, trice, twink, twinkle, twinkling, twitch, two shakes,
     wink
  
  

   n. 亦作jiff.『俗』顷刻; 瞬间; 刹那

     n. 一会儿,瞬间