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jiffy

Physics term used in computing and engineering contexts

The amount of time taken for a beam of light to travel the diameter of 1 nucleon(the particles that make up the nucleus of an atom)in a vacuum.

It would take billions of "jiffies" to just say the word jiffy.

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