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microfortnight

microfortnight noun: a period of time equal to one millionth of a fortnight, or exactly 1.2096 seconds.

Noun

microfortnight (plural microfortnights)

  1. (humorous) A period of time equal to one millionth of a fortnight, or exactly 1.2096 seconds.
    • DWORD (big-endian) microfortnights between pings1994, Ralf D. Brown, Jim Kyle, Network interrupts: a programmer's reference to network APIs
    • A microfortnight is treated as equivalent to a second.1994, Ruth E Goldenberg, Saro Saravanan, OpenVMS AXP internals and data structures: version 1.5

Forms of microfortnight

pluralmicrofortnights

Origin of microfortnight

From micro- + fortnight.

Questions about microfortnight

What does microfortnight mean?
Microfortnight means a period of time equal to one millionth of a fortnight, or exactly 1.2096 seconds.
What part of speech is microfortnight?
Microfortnight is a noun.
What is the plural of microfortnight?
The plural of microfortnight is microfortnights.

Words near microfortnight in the dictionary

  1. microformat
  2. microformation
  3. microformations
  4. microformats
  5. microforms
  6. microfortnight
  7. microfortnights
  8. microfossil
  9. microfossils
  10. microfouler
  11. microfoulers

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