jiffy in Arabic
وَهْلة wahla
UK/ˈd͡ʒɪ.fi/
jiffy in Arabic: وَهْلة (wahla), لَحْظة (laḥẓa). In English, jiffy means a very short, unspecified length of time.
Arabic words for jiffy
- very short, unspecified length of time
- وَهْلة wahla, لَحْظة laḥẓa
English meaning of jiffy
- noun A very short, unspecified length of time.
- noun A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer – historically, and by convention, 0.01 of a second, but some computer operating systems use other values.
- noun The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second).
- noun The time taken for light to travel a specified distance in a vacuum, usually one centimetre (approximately 33.3564 picoseconds), but sometimes one foot or the width of a nucleon.
jiffy in a sentence
- I’ll be back in a jiffy.
Synonyms of jiffy
jiffy in other languages
Questions about jiffy in Arabic
- What is the meaning of jiffy in Arabic?
- Jiffy in Arabic is وَهْلة (wahla), لَحْظة (laḥẓa).
- ما معنى كلمة jiffy؟
- Jiffy: وَهْلة (wahla), لَحْظة (laḥẓa).
- What does jiffy mean in English?
- Jiffy means a very short, unspecified length of time.
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