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• attoparsec n. About an inch. `atto-' is the standard SI prefix for multiplication by 10^(-18).
  A parsec (parallax-second) is 3.26 light-yea...
• anofortnight: [Adelaide University] n. 1 fortnight * 10^-9, or about 1.
  2 msec. This unit was used largely by students doing undergraduate practicals....
• micro-: pref. 1. Very small; this is the root of its use as a quantifier prefix.
  2. A quantifier prefix, calling for multiplication by 10^(-6) (see {{quantifiers}})....
• quantifiers In techspeak and jargon, the standard metric prefixes used in the SI (Systè
  me International) conventions for scientific measurement have dual uses....
• micro- pref. 1. Very small; this is the root of its use as a quantifier prefix.
  2. A quantifier prefix, calling for multiplication by 10^(-6) (see quantifiers)....
• anofortnight n. [Adelaide University] 1 fortnight * 10^(-9), or about 1.
  2 msec. This unit was used largely by students doing undergraduate practicals....
• MIPS: /mips/ [abbreviation] n. 1. A measure of computing speed
  formally, `Million Instructions Per Second' (that's 10^6 per second, not 2^(20)!...
• crayon: n. 1. Someone who works on Cray supercomputers.
  More specifically, it implies a programmer, probably of the CDC ilk, probably male, and almost certainly wearing a tie (irrespective of gender)....
• jiffy: n. 1. The duration of one tick of the system clock on the computer (see {tick}).
  Often one AC cycle time (1/60 second in the U....