Meaning of microcentury | Babel Free

Definitions

A unit of time equal to one millionth of a century or approximately one hour (52 minutes and 35.8 seconds).

humorous

Examples

“After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere even if we are trying to prove the Riemann hypothesis.”

“Translate: I was caught in such a traffic jam that I needed a microcentury for a picoparsec and that my car’s fuel consumption was two tenths of a square millimetre.”

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