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I just learned something wonderful today. I always thought a "jiffy" was just a term meaning "a short time". I use it all the time. I never knew that it actually means[citation needed] the period of time between alternating power cycles (so 1/50 or 1/60th of a second)
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I always thought it was actually 1/100th of a second.
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Chris Maunder wrote: I just learned something wonderful today.
Me too, thank you. I didn't eeven knew that there is this word "jiffy"  .
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Marco Alessandro Bertschi
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Chris Maunder wrote: I use it all the time
Me too: I actually use it fifty times per second.
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Where is the 5 when we need it?!?!?!
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To me, jiffy has always been bubblewrap.
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Also
"In computing, a jiffy is the duration of one tick of the system timer interrupt. It is not an absolute time interval unit, since its duration depends on the clock interrupt frequency of the particular hardware platform."
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Chris Maunder wrote: period of time between alternating power cycles
Well, that is a short time!!
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I've been an electrical engineer for over 30 years, and never heard the term "jiffy" applied to the period of an ac current cycle before. It hertz to think about it, so a citation is definitely needed. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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I suspect DD's been editing Wikipedia again to confuse CPians. 
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I don't need to do all that to confuse CP members.
Just point them to Q&A at homework time!
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The CCC is a close second. 
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He posted it to get a reactance out of you.
I've been a EE for 20 years and have never heard of it either.
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Though the term is attractive, I'm reluctant to go there...
Will Rogers never met me.
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I admire your resistance.
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I'll come in a jiffy[^]
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Chris Maunder wrote: I always thought a "jiffy" was just a term meaning "a short time"
And all this time I thought it was a sex act that involved Jif peanut butter.
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Better peanut butter than lemon juice[^]
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Into the choosey moms, eh?
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Just so long as the peanut butter isn't Crunchy.
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Neat. Another interesting one is "peruse", which is commonly used to mean "look over casually and quickly", while it actually means "read or examine thoroughly, carefully, or at length."
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Celibate does not mean avoiding sex.
One can be celibate but have lots of sex.
Celibate only means 'Unmarried'.
Who knew?
Although it does explain what is meant by the priesthood being celibate.
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CCC Link[ ^]
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Jiffy Lube are a bunch of false advertisers!!!
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