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• ano /nan'oh/ n. [CMU: from `nanosecond'] A brief period of time.
  Be with you in a nano" means you really will be free shortly, i....
• jiffy: 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....
• 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....
• A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
• Lenny: Hey: nice threads. Homer: Whew, I'm beat. And after work I've got to dedicate a new Jiffy Lube and cohost the Ace Awards.
  Lenny: Wow! Jiffy Lube! Carl: Boy, you're really running yourself ragged....
• ick: n. 1. A {jiffy} (sense 1). 2. In simulations, the discrete unit of time that passes between iterations of the simulation mechanism.
  In AI applications, this amount of time is often left unspecified, since the only constraint of interest is the ordering of events....
• pico-: [SI: a quantifier meaning * 10^-12] pref.
  Smaller than {nano-}; used in the same rather loose connotative way as {nano-} and {micro-}....
• Marge: Say, I've got a neat idea! Why don't you go in and pick up my mother and we'll all go out to dinner?
  Abe: I'll be back in a jiffy! [comes back with a woman in a wheelchair] Marge...
• Jiffy: The time it takes for light to go one centimeter in a vacuum.