мгновение ока — meaning in English
mgnoveniye oka
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English meaning
Senses
мгновение ока is used for these senses in English:
- blink of an eye (idiom) A moment (a very short period of time).
- jiffy (colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time. [from 1780.]
- snap A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
jiffy — full definition
- noun A very short, unspecified length of time.
- 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.
- noun The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second).
- 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.
snap — full definition
- verb To break suddenly with a sharp cracking sound.
- verb To speak suddenly and sharply, often out of irritation.
- noun A quick photograph.
- adjective Made suddenly, without much thought or planning.