microfortnight

microfortnight

English

Etymology

From micro- +‎ fortnight.

Noun

microfortnight (plural microfortnights)

1. (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.

   • 2001, Colin Harrison, Bodies Electric (novel), Macmillan, →ISBN, page 115:

     “ […] 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. […]

   • 2009, "nev young", Hey ... Just hang on a microfortnight (discussion on Internet newsgroup uk.rec.sheds)

See also

• Wikipedia on Strange Units

References

• “microfortnight” in the Jargon File, version 4.4.7.