निमिषः _nimiṣḥ

निमिषः 1 winking, shutting the eye, twinkling.

-2 Twinkling of the eye as a measure of time, a moment.

-3 The shutting of flowers.

-4 Morbid twinkling of the eye.

-5 N. of Visnu.

-Comp. -अन्तरम् the inter- val of a moment.