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OP which leads momentarily to the way that temporal terms in general tend to become inexact; or in the case of 'jiffy', an indeterminate time from a few seconds to forever, various disciplines use it to mean a) 1/100 of a second b) one millilscond and c) approximately one nanosecond.
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