BLINK OF AN EYE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blink of an eye mean? 

• BLINK OF AN EYE (noun)
  The noun BLINK OF AN EYE has 1 sense:

1. a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)

  Familiarity information: BLINK OF AN EYE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLINK OF AN EYE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

blink of an eye; flash; heartbeat; instant; jiffy; New York minute; split second; trice; twinkling; wink

Context example:

if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash

Hypernyms ("blink of an eye" is a kind of...):

bit; minute; mo; moment; second (an indefinitely short time)

 Context examples 

The signal of FRB 181112 was comprised of a few pulses, each lasting less than 40 microseconds (10 000 times shorter than the blink of an eye).

(Enigmatic radio burst illuminates a galaxy’s tranquil ​halo, ESO)

They can alter timetables in the blink of an eye, often due to something that happened in the outside world.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Solar eclipses have the power to change your plans in the blink of an eye.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

When the universe notices that a situation is languishing and is unproductive, it will pull you out of it in the blink of an eye.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Use this time to think, for you will have plenty to do this month, and decisions might need to be made in the blink of an eye.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)