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tris — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • flash verb To shine briefly or repeatedly.
  • jiffy noun A very short, unspecified length of time.

Senses

tris is used for these senses in English:

  • flash A very short amount of time.
  • jiffy (colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time. [from 1780.]

flash — full definition

  1. verb To shine briefly or repeatedly.
  2. verb To show or send something very quickly.
  3. adjective (informal, chiefly British) Showy and expensive-looking.
  4. noun A sudden brief burst of light.

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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