It's a length of time. If you went through 100 of them, one after another,
the whole thing would take you one whole second.
Edit:
Some people may claim that it is called a JIFFY but that term has no precise definition.
It's a period of time which, if you had to wait around for a hundred of them,
would all add up to one whole second.
.01 second
0.01 second or 10 milliseconds.
One one hundredth of a second is ten milliseconds.
1/10 of a second is longer
A second.
One hundredth of a second is written as "0.01 seconds."
No because it's ninety-nine one hundredth of a second.
.01 second
One hundredth of a second is called a centisecond, though the term is rarely used. It can also be expressed as 1 over 100, or 0.01.
0.01 second or 10 milliseconds.
One one hundredth of a second is ten milliseconds.
The second place to the right of the decimal.
millisecond
According to the SI system of units, such that one hundredth of a metre is equal to a centimetre, one hundredth of a second is equal to a centisecond. An alternate name, and the original meaning of this term in relation to time measurement, is a jiffy.
1/10 of a second is longer
a jify
A second.