Jiffy (time)

A Jiffy known in English a short, often unspecified time interval ( similar to the German " moment " or " moment "). It is believed that the term originates from the criminal slang of the 18th century. In science and computer technology can " Jiffy " specify different, each defined for the application time intervals or time units, creating a system based time measurement is allowed.

In the field of computer technology is a Jiffy for the period of the timer interrupt and thus represents an operating system and hardware dependent unit

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