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jiffy 音標拼音: [dʒ'ɪfi] n. 一會兒,瞬間 一會兒,瞬間 jiffy n 1: a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash" [synonym: {blink of an eye}, {flash}, {heartbeat}, {instant}, {jiffy}, {split second}, {trice}, {twinkling}, {wink}, {New York minute}] Jiffy \Jif"fy\, n. [Perh. corrupt. fr. gliff.] [Written also {giffy}.] A moment; an instant; as, I will be ready in a jiffy. [Colloq.] --J. & H. Smith. [1913 Webster] 28 Moby Thesaurus words for "jiffy": breath, breathing, coup, crack, flash, half a jiffy, half a mo, half a second, half a shake, instant, jiff, microsecond, millisecond, minute, moment, sec, second, shake, split second, stroke, tick, trice, twink, twinkle, twinkling, twitch, two shakes, wink 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*. [{Jargon File}] (2002-03-02) jiffy: n. 1. The duration of one tick of the system clock on your computer (see tick). Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the U.S. and Canada, 1/50 most other places), but more recently 1/100 sec has become common. “The swapper runs every 6 jiffies” means that the virtual memory management routine is executed once for every 6 ticks of the clock, or about ten times a second. |
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