Definition of Jify
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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)
- The Free Online Computing Dictionary
- (colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time.
I'll be back in a jiffy.
- (computers) 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.
- (physics) The time taken for light to travel one centimetre in a vacuum (sometimes one foot, or sometimes the width of a nucleon
- (electronics) The time between alternating current power cycles (1/60 or 1/50 of a second)
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- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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