Meanings
plural microfortnights
- 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 APIs2 more examples
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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