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