jiffy
nounEtymology
Origin unknown; said to have been thieves’ cant for “lightning”. Also formerly written "giffy", to which a connection with gliff has been proposed. As a kind of envelope, a genericization of Jiffy bag.
Definitions
A very short, unspecified length of time.
- I’ll be back in a jiffy.
- Most of the limbs of the law do every thing in a jiffy; but ask what they mean, and they would be as much puzzled, as if you required of them the explanantion of a common act of parliament.
A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer – historically, and by…
A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer – historically, and by convention, 0.01 of a second, but some computer operating systems use other values.
- The number of processed packets per round is limited in dependence of the page size. The processed packets are forwarded to a single queue and are processed for the time of two jiffies.
The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second).
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The time taken for light to travel a specified distance in a vacuum, usually one…
The time taken for light to travel a specified distance in a vacuum, usually one centimetre (approximately 33.3564 picoseconds), but sometimes one foot or the width of a nucleon.
Ellipsis of jiffy bag, a padded envelope.
Alternative form of Jiffy bag.
The neighborhood
- neighborjiffy tummy
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for jiffy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA