microfortnight

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noun

A period of time equal to one millionth of a fortnight, or exactly 1.2096 seconds.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

nounmicrofortnight (plural microfortnights)

plural microfortnights

  1. humorousA 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
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    A microfortnight is treated as equivalent to a second.

    1994, Ruth E Goldenberg, Saro Saravanan, OpenVMS AXP internals and data structures: version 1.5

    “[…] 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

Origin

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APA

microfortnight. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microfortnight

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“microfortnight.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/microfortnight. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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