The term 'jiffy' refers to different time measurements across various fields, including electronics, computing, and physics. In electronics, a jiffy is defined as 1/60 or 1/50 of a second, corresponding to the time between alternating current power cycles. In computing, it represents the duration of one tick of the system timer interrupt. In astrophysics and quantum physics, as defined by Edward R. Harrison, a jiffy is the time it takes for light to travel one fermi, the size of a nucleon.
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