Jiffy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Informal A short space of time; a moment. See Synonyms at moment.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A very short, unspecified length of time.
  • n. 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.
  • n. The time between alternating current power cycles (1/60 or 1/50 of a second)
  • n. The time taken for light to travel one centimetre in a vacuum (sometimes one foot, or sometimes the width of a nucleon)
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A moment; an instant.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A moment; an instant: as, I shall be with you in a jiffy.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    minute    bit    mo    second    moment   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    moment    instant    jiff    jif    tick    mo    sec   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Giffy    Spiffy    iffy    sniffy    spiffy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    noo'    ner    tobacker    mought    licker    sma't    undyed    wal    vz    sartin