microfortnight
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
microfortnight (plural microfortnights)
- (humorous) A period of time equal to one millionth of a fortnight, or exactly 1.2096 seconds.
- 1994, Ralf D. Brown, Jim Kyle, Network interrupts: a programmer's reference to network APIs:
- DWORD (big-endian) microfortnights between pings
- 1994, Ruth E Goldenberg, Saro Saravanan, OpenVMS AXP internals and data structures: version 1.5:
- A microfortnight is treated as equivalent to a second.
- 2009, nev young, “Hey ... Just hang on a microfortnight”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet):
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- “microfortnight” in the Jargon File, version 4.4.7.