jiffy

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English - Turkish
dakika
saniye
kısa zaman
an
i., k.dili. an, lahza
{i} lahza

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jiffy bag
lahza çanta
in a jiffy
kaşla göz arasında
in a jiffy
göz açıp kapayıncaya kadar
in a jiffy
hemen
in a jiffy
derhal

Derhal hazır olacağım. - I'll be ready in a jiffy.

in a jiffy
{k} (deyim) hemen,cok cabuk
wait a jiffy
bir saniye dur
English - English
The time taken for light to travel one centimetre in a vacuum (sometimes one foot, or sometimes the width of a nucleon)
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
A very short, unspecified length of time

I'll be back in a jiffy.

The time between alternating current power cycles (1/60 or 1/50 of a second)
A moment; an instant; as, I will be ready in a jiffy
A jiffy is 1/60 of a second Jiffies are to seconds as seconds are to minutes
1) 1/100 of a second 2) one millisecond 3) approximately one nanosecond 4) indeterminate time from a few seconds to forever
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 2 Confusingly, the term is sometimes also used for a 1-millisecond wall time interval 3 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 4 Indeterminate time from a few seconds to forever "I'll do it in a jiffy" means certainly not now and possibly never This is a bit contrary to the more widespread use of the word Oppose nano See also Real Soon Now
A line of baking mixes manufactured by the Chelsea Milling Company
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a very short time (as the time it takes the eye blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash"
n 1 The duration of one tick of the system clock on the 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 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* 3 Indeterminate time from a few seconds to forever "I'll do it in a jiffy" means certainly not now and possibly never This is a bit contrary to the more widespread use of the word Oppose {nano} See also {Real Soon Now}
If you say that you will do something in a jiffy, you mean that you will do it very quickly or very soon. in a jiffy very soon (Perhaps from tshipi )
{i} very short time, moment, instant, trice (Slang)
Basic packet of kernel time, around 10ms on x86 Related to HZ, the basic resolution of the operating system The timer interrupt is raised each 10ms, which then performs some h/w timer related stuff, and marks a couple of bh's ready to run if applicable

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Jiffy bag
a thick envelope for sending objects which could be damaged in normal envelopes
Jiffy bags
plural form of Jiffy bag
Jiffy bag
a thick soft envelope, used for posting things that might break
in a jiffy
Very quickly; without delay

Call her if you have any problems and she'll get it fixed in a jiffy.

A jiffy
jiff
in a jiffy
in a moment, immediately, in a flash, instantly
jiffies
Plural of jiffy
jiffy
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