Jiffy

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  • noun. A short space of time; a moment. synonym: moment.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A moment; an instant: as, I shall be with you in a jiffy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A moment; an instant.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A very short, unspecified length of time.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The time between alternating current power cycles (1/60 or 1/50 of a second)
  • noun. The time taken for light to travel one centimetre in a vacuum (sometimes one foot, or sometimes the width of a nucleon)
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
  • Word Usage
    "Pulling out into traffic with confidence that what you've got behind the throttle will get with the flow in a jiffy is a HUGE plus side to the Burgman as compared to the smaller scoots."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bit  minute  mo  moment  second  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Giffy  Spiffy  iffy  sniffy  spiffy  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    licker  mought  multiway  ner  noo'  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    breath  breathing  coup  crack  flash