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(humorous) A unit of time equal to one millionth of a century or approximately one hour (52 minutes and 35.8 seconds)..
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.
Use microcentury when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Microcentury means (humorous) A unit of time equal to one millionth of a century or approximately one hour (52 minutes and 35.8 seconds)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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