Should somebody ever say to you “I’ll be back in a jiffy”, prepare to be disappointed. They are woefully exaggerating their ability to travel. A jiffy can actually be describing one of many short measurements of time. In electronics, a jiffy is the time between cycles of alternating current, or about 1/60th of a second. [...]
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