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TIME SCALE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An arrangement of events used as a measure of duration
Example:
on the geological time scale mankind has existed but for a brief moment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("time scale" is a kind of...):
continuance; duration (the period of time during which something continues)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "time scale"):
extended time scale; slow time scale ((simulation) the time scale used in data processing when the time-scale factor is greater than one)
fast time scale ((simulation) the time scale used in data processing when the time-scale factor is less than one)
