jiffy

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noun

Plural noun:

jiffiesgiffy

1.
(colloquial)A very short, unspecified length of time.
I’ll be back in a jiffy.
Đồng nghĩa: instant, jiff, mo, sec, tick, bat of an eye, bit, blink of an eye, crack, eyeblink, flash, glimpse, half a mo, instant, jiff, jiffy, jot, minute, mo, moment, New York minute, New York second, no time, sec, second, span, split-second, spurt, stound, tick, trice, twink, twinkle, twinkling, while
2.
(computing) 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.
3.
(electronics) The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second).
4.
(physics) 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.
5.
(UK, abbreviation, alt of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of jiffy bag, a padded envelope.
Đồng nghĩa: bubble envelope, bubble mailer, Jiffy bag, padded envelope, padded mailer

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Đồng nghĩa

instant jiffmosec tickbat of an eyebitblink of an eyecrackeyeblinkflashglimpsehalf a mojot minute momentNew York minuteNew York secondno timesecond

Cùng gốc / liên quan

in a jiffyJiffy bagjiffy tummy

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Nguồn gốc từ

Origin; 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.