jiffy

jiffy englannista suomeksi

1. tovi

0. Substantiivi

1. tuokio|n

jiffy englanniksi

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

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4. (quote-journal)&93;|title=More News from China|magazine=New Monthly Magazine|The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist|location=London|publisher=(w), Marlborough Street|Great Marlborough St.|month=December|year=1842|volume=LXVI|issue=CCLXIV (Third Part)|page=427|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z3VPAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA427|oclc=7489261|passage=Of course it's kill or be killed, so at it you go, like Carter and his wild beasts, only in right down earnest, two or three more Tigers joining in, clash slash, and the sparks flying as thick as in a smith's forge, or at a Terrific Combat at the Surrey or the Wells. Such a shindy is too hot to last, and, accordingly, if you're alive at the end of two jiffies, the chance is that you find yourself making quite a melodramatic Tableau—namely, your bloody sword in one hand, a Chinese pigtail in the other, and four or five weltering Tartars lying round your feet!

5. (quote-book)|year=1864|page=233|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=fBJFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA233|oclc=2023537|passage=Here Godfroy nodded pleasantly to Claude, who bowed, and was off— / —In a jiffyto his men, who greeted him with loud hurrahs. In another jiffy, he was on a barrel, making them an oration. In another jiffy, he had hold of a horse, somehow—for the man had contrived already to make himself so popular in Viot, that he could have anything he liked for the asking. ''Footnote'': * ''Jiffy''.—Let not the reader scorn the word; it is in Webster. "''Jiffy, a moment.''"—''Webster.''

6. (RQ:Lincoln Pratt's Patients)

7. A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer – historically, and by convention, 0.01 of a second, but some computer systems use other values.

8. The length of an current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second).

9. 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.

10. (short for), a envelope.