Definizione monolingua

jiffy

jiffy (plural jiffies)

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

   Ill be back in a jiffy.

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

Definizione dizionario jiffy

	attimo
	short length of time

	baleno
	short length of time

istante

momento

Altri significati:

(physics) The time taken for light to travel one centimetre in a vacuum (sometimes one foot, or sometimes the width of a nucleon)

(colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time.

(computing) 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)