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blink [bliŋk]
(mechanics)
A unit of time equal to 10-5day or to 0.864 second.
(meteorology)
A brightening of the base of a cloud layer, caused by the reflection of light from a snow- or ice-covered surface.


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Maliki would have become the most important figure in Iraq in the blink of an eye, the one person everyone would have had to deal with.
Because of the wealth of detail and the nature of Hitler's strategy, the novel is slow-moving, yet it provides an interesting record of how life can change, not so much in the blink of an eye, but so gradually that people are slow to recognize what they have given up--which is, of course, always an interesting parallel for modern times.
9/05), once more opens his fantastical cabinet of invention, this time for a foray to the island-bound city Orokos, where probability storms change the topography or the inhabitants in the blink of an eye.
 
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