noun. An extremely short period of time; an instant.

noun. An act of blinking one's eyelids one time.

noun. A moment; a very short period of time.

"And then between that lost mission and the loss of Columbia in '03 came that other event when, in an eyeblink, two mighty steel towers gave way to blank sky too."

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blink of an eye