"microfortnight" meaning in English

See microfortnight in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: microfortnights [plural]
Etymology: micro- + fortnight Etymology templates: {{pre|en|micro|fortnight}} micro- + fortnight Head templates: {{en-noun}} microfortnight (plural microfortnights)
  1. (humorous) A period of time equal to one millionth of a fortnight, or exactly 1.2096 seconds. Tags: humorous Categories (topical): Fourteen, Time Related terms: Wikipedia on Strange Units
    Sense id: en-microfortnight-en-noun-grRtQZSs Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with micro-

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for microfortnight meaning in English (2.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "micro",
        "3": "fortnight"
      },
      "expansion": "micro- + fortnight",
      "name": "pre"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "micro- + fortnight",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "microfortnights",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "microfortnight (plural microfortnights)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with micro-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fourteen",
          "orig": "en:Fourteen",
          "parents": [
            "Numbers",
            "All topics",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Time",
          "orig": "en:Time",
          "parents": [
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1994, Ralf D. Brown, Jim Kyle, Network interrupts: a programmer's reference to network APIs",
          "text": "DWORD (big-endian) microfortnights between pings",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Ruth E Goldenberg, Saro Saravanan, OpenVMS AXP internals and data structures: version 1.5",
          "text": "A microfortnight is treated as equivalent to a second.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Colin Harrison, Bodies Electric, Macmillan, page 115",
          "text": "“[…] 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. […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2009, nev young, “Hey ... Just hang on a microfortnight”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet):",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A period of time equal to one millionth of a fortnight, or exactly 1.2096 seconds."
      ],
      "id": "en-microfortnight-en-noun-grRtQZSs",
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "millionth",
          "millionth"
        ],
        [
          "fortnight",
          "fortnight"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(humorous) A period of time equal to one millionth of a fortnight, or exactly 1.2096 seconds."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Wikipedia on Strange Units"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "microfortnight"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "micro",
        "3": "fortnight"
      },
      "expansion": "micro- + fortnight",
      "name": "pre"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "micro- + fortnight",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "microfortnights",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "microfortnight (plural microfortnights)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Wikipedia on Strange Units"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English humorous terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with micro-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Fourteen",
        "en:Time"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1994, Ralf D. Brown, Jim Kyle, Network interrupts: a programmer's reference to network APIs",
          "text": "DWORD (big-endian) microfortnights between pings",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Ruth E Goldenberg, Saro Saravanan, OpenVMS AXP internals and data structures: version 1.5",
          "text": "A microfortnight is treated as equivalent to a second.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Colin Harrison, Bodies Electric, Macmillan, page 115",
          "text": "“[…] 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. […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2009, nev young, “Hey ... Just hang on a microfortnight”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet):",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A period of time equal to one millionth of a fortnight, or exactly 1.2096 seconds."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "millionth",
          "millionth"
        ],
        [
          "fortnight",
          "fortnight"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(humorous) A period of time equal to one millionth of a fortnight, or exactly 1.2096 seconds."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "microfortnight"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.