ALL meanings of jiffy
jif·fy
J j - noun Technical meaning of jiffy 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 moment. 1
- noun jiffy moment, instant 1
- noun plural jiffy a very short time; moment: to get dressed in a jiffy. 1
- noun jiffy a very short time 0
- noun jiffy a very short time; instant 0
- noun jiffy (Colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time. 0
- noun jiffy (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. 0
- noun jiffy (electronics) The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second). 0
- noun jiffy (physics) The time taken for light to travel one centimetre in a vacuum (sometimes one foot, or sometimes the width of a nucleon). 0