1. The duration of one href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=tick">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 href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=wall time">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*. [href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Jargon File">Jargon File] (2002-03-02)

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