straks — meaning in English

English meaning

• forthwith adv Immediately, without any delay.
• jiffy noun A very short, unspecified length of time.
• momentarily adv For a very short period of time; briefly.

Senses

straks is used for these senses in English:

• at once Immediately; now; right away.
• forthwith (chiefly, formal, literary, law) Without delay; immediately. [from early 14th c.]
• jiffy (colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time. [from 1780.]

jiffy — full definition

1. noun A very short, unspecified length of time.
2. noun 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.
3. noun The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second).
4. noun The time taken for light to travel a specified distance in a vacuum, usually one centimetre (approximately 33.3564 picoseconds), but sometimes one foot or the width of a nucleon.

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