chvilka — meaning in English

English meaning

• bit noun A small piece or amount of something.
• jiff noun A very short amount of time; a moment.
• jiffy noun A very short, unspecified length of time.
• minute noun A unit of time equal to sixty seconds, or one sixtieth of an hour.
• moment noun A very short period of time, or a particular point in time.
• second adjective Coming after the first in order, position, or importance.

Senses

chvilka is used for these senses in English:

• bit (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
• jiff (informal) A jiffy; a moment; a short time.
• jiffy (colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time. [from 1780.]
• minute (informal) A short but unspecified time period.
• moment (historical, unit) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.
• second A unit of time historically and commonly defined as a sixtieth of a minute which the International System of Units more precisely defines as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
• second (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time.

bit — full definition

1. noun A small piece or amount of something.
2. noun The smallest unit of digital information, representing a 0 or a 1.
3. verb Past tense of "bite".

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