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Did you know that the traditional measure of 40 winks can be accurately converted to 13.333333333 nanoseconds?! Do you know what a galileo, a dyne, or a stigma is? And if you ever need to convert hectares into roods or townships, well this is for you! and it's also a useful practical tool, too, but!http://www.engnetglobal.com/tips/convert.asp(edit to activate URL)
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what is the correct definition for a "jiffy"?
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Correct definition of 'jiffy,' tsuwm? Context. It depends upon context.
Now, do you know about the nanonaise connection to 'nano'?
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Do you know what a galileo, a dyne, or a stigma is?
Hey, Maverick, you gave it away. They're all units of measure:
galileo Symbol: Gal ≡ 1 cm/s2 = 0,01 m/s2
dyne [French] Symbol: dyn ≡ 10-5 N
stigma ≡ 10-12m = 1 pm
I've got no idea what they measure, but they're handy little words for a limerick.
A galieo, a stigma and a dyne
Took a walk together on a line.
They wanted to settle
In a test of mettle
Who's the biggest and the broadest measure sign.
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the correct definition for a "jiffy"
I used to know. And I've heard of the dyne but I only remember the defintion of a dyne-centimeter (Hint: it has all its many little legs wiggling in the air.)
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what is the correct definition for a "jiffy"?
It's just a little slower than "as fast as humanly possible".
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as fast as humanly possible ---
--- which is "afahp"* if you're in a hurry and you need something sooner than "asap".
* That's what it used to mean. Now it means "Ask Fiorina About Hewlett Packard". [That's how fast she got her walking papers.]
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I'pretty sure that Jiffy is a U.S. peanut butter.  Acutally, I've got this conversion page stored in my favorites. It is very necessary in a country that has officially adopted the metric system but who's inhabitants just aren't taking to specific parts of it. You will NEVER hear anybody say their weight or height in metric. Driving distances are in kilometres, but box/space sizing is in inches and feet. Foodstuffs are discussed in both metric and imperial, as in "Hun, can you go buy me a litre of orange juice, a half-pound of butter, yogurt - the small 150ml ones - and about a pound of sliced ham."
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What is this mordant obsession with mushed peanuts, fer gawds' sakes?! Well, in the UK a Jiffy bag is a quilted postal sack - something like an insulated airline sick bag, so I guess that works!
and yeah, that sounds like my dear bilingual UK too, belM :) If I go down to the builders' merchants (lumber yeard), I would probably ask for 4.2m of 2" by 1" and so on! The only exception I 've noticed to the personal weight thing is that gym freaks and body fascists sometimes refer to their weight in kilos. Mebbe they think it sounds more technical...
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Here in NZ, the tendency is for personal weights to be given in metric and height in feet and inches. This could be because all modern scales are metric. People likely to weigh themselves more often than they measure their own height.
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