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microfortnight en · NOUN

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Etymology

From micro- + fortnight.

Meanings

1. (humorous) A period of time equal to one millionth of a fortnight, or exactly 1.2096 seconds.
   • DWORD (big-endian) microfortnights between pings 1994, Ralf D. Brown, Jim Kyle, Network interrupts: a programmer's reference to network APIs:
   • “[…] The whole thing takes about a microfortnight.” ¶ “What’s a microfortnight?” I asked. ¶ “About one-point-two seconds,” DiFrancesco answered, as if I were the stupidest man alive. […] 2001, Colin Harrison, Bodies Electric, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 115:
   • A microfortnight is treated as equivalent to a second. 1994, Ruth E Goldenberg, Saro Saravanan, OpenVMS AXP internals and data structures: version 1.5:

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Wikipedia on Strange Units