breathing vs jiffy

breathing

noun
  • A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof. 

  • The act of respiration; a single instance of this. 

  • Aspiration; secret prayer. 

  • Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration. 

jiffy

noun
  • A very short, unspecified length of time. 

  • The time taken for light to travel a specified distance in a vacuum, usually one centimetre, but sometimes one foot or the width of a nucleon. 

  • A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer – historically, and by convention, 0.01 of a second, but some computer operating systems use other values. 

  • The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second). 

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