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nano /nan'oh/ n.

[CMU: from `nanosecond'] A brief period of time. "Be with you

in a nano" means you really will be free shortly, i.e., implies

what mainstream people mean by "in a jiffy" (whereas the hackish

use of `jiffy' is quite different -- see jiffy).

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