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flashes
Instantaneous illumination for photography:
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winks
A gleam or twinkle.
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trices
A very short time; an instant; a moment; - now used only in the phrase in a trice.
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jiffies
(Computing) A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer; historically, and by convention, 0.01 seconds, but some operating systems use other values.
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heartbeats
(Computing) A periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize other parts of a system.
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seconds
A unit of time equal to1 /60 of a minute. &diamf3; A sidereal second is1 /60 of a sidereal minute, and a mean solar second is1 /60 of a mean solar minute.
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minutes
A unit of time equal to1 /60 of an hour or 60 seconds. &diamf3; A sidereal minute is1 /60 of a sidereal hour, and a mean solar minute is1 /60 of a mean solar hour.
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moments
(Historical) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.
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points
A specific moment in time:
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junctures
A point of time
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fasts
A day or period of fasting
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breaths
A single act of breathing.
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ticks
(Computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
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twinkles
The very brief time it takes to wink; twinkling
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eternities (antonym)
A long period of time that seems endless
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times (related)
A similar number representing a specific point on this continuum, reckoned in hours and minutes:
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  • A pair of contact springs are slowly shifted over so as to close the circuit at successive assigned instants during a complete phase.

  • Delisle is chiefly remembered as the author of a method for observing the transits of Venus and Mercury by instants of contacts.

  • For instance, to take the two solutions to which we have already referred, we have of ions between molecules at the instants of molecular collision only; during the rest of the life of the ions they were regarded as linked to each other to form electrically neutral molecules.

  • In 1887 Svante Arrhenius, professor of physics at Stockholm, put forward a new theory which supposed that the freedom of the opposite ions from each other was not a mere momentary freedom at the instants of molecular collision, but a more or less permanent freedom, the ions moving independently of each other through the liquid.

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