May 15, 2003

nano

/nan´oh/ n.

[CMU: from nanosecond] A brief period of time. Be with you in a nano means you really will be free shortly, i.e., implies what mainstream people mean by in a jiffy (whereas the hackish use of ‘jiffy’ is quite different — see jiffy).

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:37 AM

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