Full definition of microfortnight
Noun
- (humorous) A period of time equal to one millionth of a fortnight, or exactly 1.2096 seconds.
- 1994, Ralf D. Brown, Jim Kyle, Network interrupts: a programmer's reference to network APIs‎DWORD (big-endian) microfortnights between pings
- 1994, Ruth E Goldenberg, Saro Saravanan, OpenVMS AXP internals and data structures: version 1.5‎A microfortnight is treated as equivalent to a second.
- 2001, Colin Harrison, Bodies Electric (novel), Macmillan, , page 115:“... 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. ...
- 2009, "nev young", Hey ... Just hang on a microfortnight (discussion on Internet newsgroup uk.rec.sheds)