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How to pronounce “jiffy”

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Pronunciation guide for jiffy

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of jiffy with real speech in context.
Available examples: 3 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Why curiosity is the key to science and medicinestart to look a heck of a lot like Jiffy Lube.
Definition summary: (colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time. [from 1780.]

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Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine

start to look a heck of a lot like Jiffy Lube.

[Noun]
(colloquial) A very short, unspecified length of time. [from 1780.]
(computing) 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.
(electronics) The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second).
(physics) 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.
(UK) Ellipsis of jiffy bag, a padded envelope.

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