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microcentury

noun

Etymology

From micro- (“1 millionth”) + century (“100 years”).

  1. derived from centuria
  2. derived from centurie
  3. inherited from centurie
  4. prefixed as microcentury — “micro + century”

Definitions

  1. A unit of time equal to one millionth of a century or approximately one hour (52 minutes…

    A unit of time equal to one millionth of a century or approximately one hour (52 minutes and 35.8 seconds).

    • After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere even if we are trying to prove the Riemann hypothesis.
    • Translate: I was caught in such a traffic jam that I needed a microcentury for a picoparsec and that my car’s fuel consumption was two tenths of a square millimetre.

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No curated loop yet for microcentury. 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