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- [jif-ee]
- /ˈdʒɪf i/
- /ˈdʒɪf.i/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [jif-ee]
- /ˈdʒɪf i/
Definitions of jiffy word
- noun plural jiffy a very short time; moment: to get dressed in a jiffy. 1
- noun jiffy A moment. 1
- noun jiffy moment, instant 1
- noun Definition of jiffy in Technology 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*. 1
- noun jiffy a very short time 0
- noun jiffy a very short time; instant 0
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Origin of jiffy
First appearance:
before 1770 One of the 46% newest English words
First recorded in 1770-80; origin uncertain
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Jiffy
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
jiffy popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 63% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
jiffy usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for jiffy
noun jiffy
- sec — Single Edge Contact Cartridge
- second — next after the first; being the ordinal number for two.
- minute — the sixtieth part (1/60) of an hour; sixty seconds.
- flash — a precedence code for handling messages about initial enemy contact or operational combat messages of extreme urgency within the U.S. military.
- instant — an infinitesimal or very short space of time; a moment: They arrived not an instant too soon.
adjective jiffy
- lickety-split — at great speed; rapidly: to travel lickety-split.
- speeder — a person or thing that speeds.
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