forever vs jiffy

forever

noun
  • An extremely long time. 

  • A mythical time in the infinite future that will never come. 

adj
  • Permanent, lasting; constant, perpetual. 

adv
  • We had to wait forever to get inside. 

  • For all time, for all eternity; for a lifetime; for an infinite amount of time. 

  • For a very long time, a seeming eternity. 

  • Constantly or frequently. 

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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