lahza — meaning in English

English meaning

• jiffy noun A very short, unspecified length of time.

Senses

lahza is used for these senses in English:

• 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.