quintade

Blend of quint- (“five”) and decade (“10-year period”).

Thus it appears, that the greatest number of cases of uterine cancer occurs between the ages of 30 and 40, and 40 and 45; that nearly equal numbers take place in the first decade, and the latter quintade; that, nevertheless, if the quintades of the latter decade be conjoined, very nearly double the number (201) take place in the decade between 40 and 50, of that which takes place in the decade between 30 and 40; that next to the decade between 20 and 40, that between 20 and 30 is most liable; yet that this does not approach the quintade between 45 and 50; that below the age of 20 the frequency of uterine cancer varies from on-eighth to one-ninth of that of other periods; that after 50 it is about one-fifteenth; and that after 60 it is so low as a twenty-fifth or twenty-sixth.

1833, Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal - Volume 40 - Page 368:

The number of deaths by each of these is set down in parallel columns for different ages from one year up to five, and in quintades, from five to a hundred.

1868, The National Quarterly Review - Volume 16, page 272:

It promises to be valuable for petrol blends early in the 2009-2013 quintade, particularly if whey bioethanol production falls short of demand.

2009, D Painter, “Are biofuels the future or a folly?: A review”, in New Zealand Journal of Forestry, volume 53, number 4, page 16:

For 5-year-intervals (referred to in the following as “quintades” in analogy to decades) there is a marked drop of absolute and relative publications frequencies since the 1990s with a maximum of 4.2 % in the quintade 1985–1989 and the minimum of 1.6 % in 2010–2014 (see Fig. 1).

2016 March, G Krampen, “Scientometric trend analyses of publications on the history of psychology: Is psychology becoming an unhistorical science?”, in Scientometrics, volume 106, number 3:

Synonym of pentad: A 5-year period, particularly in reference to the first and second halves of calendrical decades.


coinstantaneousness

The quality of occurring at the same instant in time.


youthtime

(poetic, archaic) The time when one is young; youth or childhood.


Veganuary

Around two-thirds of those who take part in Veganuary enjoy it so much that they choose to stay vegan at the end of the month, and almost everyone else chooses to become vegetarian or reduce their consumption of animal products.

2019, James Rice, Try Veganuary with Deliciously Ella, Hachette, →ISBN:

Veganuary has been blamed for poor performance in pubs and restaurants last month, with sales slumping after a strong Christmas.

2019 February 18, Oliver Gill, “‘Veganuary’ blamed for January pub hangover”, in The Telegraph, →ISSN:

Restaurants dropping meat dishes as costs rise and Veganuary grows more popular [title]

2023 January 21, James Trapper, “Restaurants dropping meat dishes as costs rise and Veganuary grows more popular”, in The Observer, Guardian Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, retrieved 2023-01-31:

A January in which people are encouraged to eat vegan food after the Christmas excesses.


generation ship

en-noun

generation ship (plural generation ships)

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(science fiction, space flight) A type of interstellar spaceship, where generations of humans live and die aboard during the journey through interstellar space, as the journey between stars would take generations.


dodecade

Alternative form of duodecade (“period of twelve years”).


astronomical time

The time past mean noon of a particular day, reckoned on to twenty-four hours in mean time.


in the twinkling of a bedstaff

(archaic) In no time at all; immediately.


three-quarter time

three-quarter time (countable and uncountable, plural three-quarter times)

three-quarter times (plural)
three quarter time (alternative)
three quarter-time (alternative)
three-quarter-time (alternative)
three quartertime (alternative)
three-quartertime (alternative)

(music) A time signature of a composition indicating three quarter notes or their equivalent in each measure.


quarter time

quarter times (plural)
quarter-time (alternative)
quartertime (alternative)

2019 Cameron Newbold and Tim Edmunds, Third quarter blitz guides Tigers to upset win Albany Advertiser, 12 May 2019. Accessed 13 May 2019.
Banks was sent off for the remainder of the game and Barrow received a yellow card for wrestling as the Kangas led by a solidarity point at quarter time.

(sports) The interval between the first and second quarters of a sports match.


echo time

The time between a sound or pulse of radio waves being produced and the receipt of the corresponding echo


kappa effect

A temporal perceptual illusion that can arise when observers judge the elapsed time between sensory stimuli applied sequentially at different locations. Subjects tend to overestimate the time between stimuli when the distance between the stimuli is large, and to underestimate the time when the distance is small.


tau effect

A spatial perceptual illusion that arises when observers judge the distance between consecutive stimuli in a sequence. When the distance between stimuli is constant but the time between stimuli is not, subjects tend to misperceive the shorter temporal interval as being accompanied by a shorter spatial interval.


centennium

From Late Latin centennium (“period of 100 years”), from centennis (“100-year”) + -ium (“forming abstract nouns”). Cognate with centennial.

bor

(rare) Synonym of century: A period of 100 years.


time-expired

(of a soldier, prisoner etc.) Whose time has expired, having served their time.

Where a period of time, during which something can be sold or used, has expired.


half an hour

I'll be there in half an hour.

And whẽ he had opened the ſeventhe ſeale / there was ſilence in heven aboute the ſpace of halfe an houre /

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Revelation viij:[1], folio cccxxviij, verso:


chronoscopy

The measurement and study of extremely small time intervals by means of a chronoscope.


time keep

en-verb

time keep (third-person singular simple present time keeps, present participle time keeping, simple past and past participle time kept)

time keeps (present singular third-person)
time keeping (participle present)
time kept (participle past)
time kept (past)

Who time keeps? Who evaluates the results?

2000, J.K. Gilbert, C. Boulter, Developing Models in Science Education, page 294:

Since it was not uncommon to be able to time keep, it should not have been that bad of a problem.

We mentioned already that if you have a big enough team then it becomes one person's role to time keep and document.

2014, Debbie Rosenorn-Lanng, Human Factors in Healthcare: Level One:


next time

On the following occasion (as opposed to this time).


light equation

(astronomy) The time which light takes to traverse the mean distance of the Earth from the Sun.


turn the clock back

turn the clock back (third-person singular simple present turns the clock back, present participle turning the clock back, simple past and past participle turned the clock back)

turns the clock back (present singular third-person)
turning the clock back (participle present)
turned the clock back (participle past)
turned the clock back (past)

If I could move a mountain
If I could make the sky turn black
If I could turn the clock back
To when I heard your neck go snap

2005, J. G. Thirlwell, “(not adam)”, in Love, performed by Foetus:

turn back the clock
turn back the clock#English

Alternative form of turn back the clock.


plurisecular

en-adj

plurisecular (comparative more plurisecular, superlative most plurisecular)

more plurisecular (comparative)
most plurisecular (superlative)

From pluri- (“multi-, many”) + secular (“of or related to centuries”), chiefly after French pluriséculaire.

prefix

M. Charles Rabot, secretary of the French Commission on Glaciers, is the author of a pamphlet entitled "Essai de Chronologie des Variations Glaciaires"... A complete primary oscillation, i.e. an increase and decrease, appears to have a duration of one or two centuries... There seems further to be a plurisecular period covering, in the case of the Alps, about three centuries.

1903 March 26, anonymous author, Nature, volume 67, number 1743, page 495:

Rather than seeing in [the anonymous author of My Secret Life] a courageous fugitive from a "Victorianism" that would have compelled him to silence, I am inclined to think that, in an epoch dominated by (highly prolix) directives enjoining discretion and modesty, he was the most direct and in a way the most naïve representative of a plurisecular injunction to talk about sex.

1978, Michel Foucault, translated by Robert Hurley, The History of Sexuality, volume I, page 22:

...it is convenient to take into consideration, on one hand, registration in a program within a plurisecular story of academic mobilities and of the literary imagination linked to the juvenile journey and, on the other hand, the contribution of ERASMUS journeys to a socialisation centered on the meeting of individuals from different European countries.

2013, Vincenzo Cicchelli, “The Cosmopolitan 'Bildung' of Erasmus Students' Going Abroad”, in Critical Perspectives on International Education, page 205:

(rare, academic) Of or related to a span of several centuries, centuries-old.


next tomorrow

(India, West Africa) On the day after tomorrow.


equal hour

A unit of time defined as one twenty-fourth (¹⁄₂₄) of a full day–night cycle (as opposed to one twelfth of a varying daylight or nighttime cycle).


coronatime

Our experience of time isn’t just different because we are fearful or bored, cooped up or overworked. It has changed because we don’t yet know what to measure it against. Coronatime has no scale.

2020 May 8, Arielle Pardes, “There Are No Hours or Days in Coronatime”, in Wired, archived from the original on 2023-03-29:

This article has argued that the period of forced isolation during the disruptive and uncertain months of coronatime materialized the unexpected affective potential of virtual touching. Our initial experience of social distancing and the silence of coronatime seemed to void life.

2020 September 22, Vivienne Bozalek, Denise Newfield, Nike Romano, Lieve Carette, Katharine Naidu, Veronica Mitchell, Alex Noble, “Touching Matters: Affective Entanglements in Coronatime”, in Qualitative Inquiry, volume 27, number 7, →DOI:

The pandemic has highlighted the stark difference between Boristime and Coronatime. Because he is unable to treat the country as grown-ups and can't handle being the bearer of bad news, Boris invariably shortens any given Covid time frame.

2021 November 2, John Crace, A Farewell to Calm: The New Normal Survival Guide, Faber & Faber, →ISBN, page 153:

(neologism) The period of the COVID-19 pandemic.


millionennium

en-noun

millionennium (plural millionennia or millionenniums)

millionennia (plural)
millionenniums (plural)

These superstitions and traditions were all odd and strange beliefs, which mingled the materialistic and the spiritual most incongruously; but they were not so degrading, and they were not so far from truth as the “enlightened” ideas respecting our origin, circulated in costly volumes during recent years, by authors whose Adam and Eve were frogs, formed from slime by the action of the sun, with a dash of electricity, and in which, from gratitude for their descent, their progeny for centuries, millenniums, or millionenniums wallowed.

1860, “Traditions and Superstitions”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XXVII, Edinburgh: Sutherland & Knox; London: Partridge & Co., page 526, column 1:

What they should advocate, then, is, that the government should manufacture 65,000,000 greenbacks, each of one million dollars, and that one of these should be presented as a free gift to every one of our 65,000,000 people. Then every man, woman, and child in the country would be a millionaire, the currency would be sufficiently “expanded” to meet the demands of the most voracious, and wealth, contentment, and happiness would be universally diffused. In short, not merely the millennium, but the millionennium would have arrived. Just imagine it! a whole nation of millionaires!

1890, “Passing Notes”, in Belford’s Magazine, volume VI, New York: Belford’s Magazine Company; Chicago: Belford-Clarke Company, page 109:

An emmet is far more competent to discourse upon the figure of the earth than we are to say what future millennia and millionennia may have in store for physical theories, with the atomic theory and the theory of light not yet one sleepy century old.

a. 1914, Charles Sanders Peirce, quotee, “Elements of Logic”, in Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Harvard University Press, published 1932, pages 81–81:

Miss Helen is the same kind er spender as her maw. I believe my soul them two would ruther buy than eat. Cook used ter say that Mis’ Carter an’ Miss Helen spent like we done come to the millionennium.

1917, Emma Speed Sampson, “Chapter III: The Problem”, in The Carter Girls’ Weekend Camp, published 2017:

After that the land was quiet for a long time, and the decimillenia passed and ran on into centilmillenna, and the centimillennia piled up into millionennia.

1951, George R. Stewart, Sheep Rock: A Novel, page 204:

If what has occurred during the past “millionennia” through the process of natural selection is so worth treasuring and preserving, […]

2000, James B. Reichmann, “Anthropocentrism, Biocentrism, Envirocentrism”, in Evolution, Animal ‘Rights’, and the Environment, Catholic University of America Press, →ISBN, pages 325–326:

> > The reason that I ask is that I'm developing a Science Fiction story / > > which incorporates this idea. I'm wondering what kinds of religions / > > would arrise from this kind of information. Surely there would not be / > > a single galactic religion, / Um, understatement of the... millionennium.

2002 July 24, Zeborah, “Re: How come Jean-Luc Picard is an atheist?”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet), message-ID <1ffuli5.1jnrg03twlaofN%zeborahnz@mac.com>:

Given that distortions of this sort (compression fractures, so to speak) are inevitable whenever the very closest comparanda across fossil records of any kind, linguistic or otherwise, are separated by millennia (in linguistic evolution) or even – to coin a useful term – millionennia (in biological evolution), how can we be so confident about our diachronic-linguistic activity in attempting to reconstruct details and overall structures of earlier language-states – as well as major changes in these – on the basis of arguably scanty textual evidence?

2003, Brian D. Joseph, Richard D. Janda, editors, The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:

[…] / to you, / who provided us / food, / drink, / and song / for a millionennium.

2013, James H. McGavran III, transl., Selected Poems, Northwestern University Press, translation of original by Vladimir Mayakovsky, →ISBN, page 246:

(rare) Synonym of mega-annum: a period of time consisting of one million years.


clock on

en-verb

clock on (third-person singular simple present clocks on, present participle clocking on, simple past and past participle clocked on)

clocks on (present singular third-person)
clocking on (participle present)
clocked on (participle past)
clocked on (past)

(literally, UK) To record one's time of arrival at work, traditionally by inserting one's card into a timestamping machine.


caesium clock

caesium clocks (plural)
cesium clock (alternative)

A type of highly accurate atomic clock that is regulated by a resonance frequency of caesium atoms (the same frequency, 9,192,631,770 Hz, on which the precise scientific definition of the second is based).


Covidtide

From COVID + -tide (“time”), by analogy with liturgical seasons such as Christmastide.

COVID-tide (alternative)
COVIDtide (alternative)

In the past 24 hours I played skyrim for 10, and ate a whole pizza, and that isn't all. Covidtide is exposing the paucity of the american dream much more efficiently than lent

2020 March 22, @subtle_mullet, “In the past 24 hours I played skyrim for 10 […]”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 2020-03-23:

Like so many other congregations, St. Aidan is adapting its life together to realities created by this extended season of “Covidtide.”

2020 November, Dean Pinter, “Prayer and Scripture Are the Daily Bread in Moose Jaw”, in The Saskatchewan Anglican, Regina, Saskatchewan: Diocese of Saskatchewan / Diocese of Saskatoon / Diocese of Qu’Appelle, retrieved 2022-02-07, page 4:

Advent during "Covidtide," as some have termed the pandemic, allows families to enter a type of "family cocoon" or period of dormancy, said Anne Nicklaus, 57, whose family belongs to Our Lady of Peace Parish in Minneapolis.

2020 December 2, Maria Wiering, “Catholics Say They’re Able to Deepen Their Approach to Advent Season This Year”, in Angelus (Catholic News Service), Los Angeles, retrieved 2020-02-07:

Even in lockdown, even in Covidtide, our house has continued to brim over with life.

2021, Brad East, The Doctrine of Scripture, Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, →ISBN, page xvi:

COVID-19 might have further ruptured Christian unity as we debated mandatory vaccines and masking, but there’s one thing we can all agree on based on our experiences over Covidtide: Video calls are a bad substitute for human presence.

2021 December, Ted Olsen, “Screening Visitors”, in Christianity Today, volume 65, number 9, →ISSN, page 22:

(neologism, chiefly Christianity) The period of the COVID-19 pandemic.


centimillennium

A Millennium consists of one thousand years. / A Decamillennium is ten thousand years. /[…]/ A Centimillennium embraces a period of one hundred thousand years.

[1882, Nelson Loverin, “Description of the Historical Slate”, in Loverin’s Chart of Time, Centograph and Slate, New York, “Definitions Worthy of Special Attention”, page 37:

After that the land was quiet for a long time, and the decimillennia passed and ran on into centimillennia, and the centimillennia piled up into millionennia.[…]And, as the centimillennia passed, the hills grew lower still and the valleys broader, so that the whole land was only of a rolling surface, as if it would soon be a plain.

1951, George R. Stewart, “The Mountains and the Sky”, in Sheep Rock, Ballantine Books, published 1971, “The Mountains”, pages 174, 175:

To dig down through the layers of anthropology, to compare spokeshave and arrowhead, awl and drill – embedded codices – from the abandoned shelters of the earth, to hobnob with millennia and to quote centimillennia with the same sort of respect as was previously accorded to the aristocracy, is to cite the modern quality.

1964, Jim Bailey, “Chapter 30. The Landing in the South of France”, in The Sky Suspended: A Fighter Pilot’s Story, Bloomsbury Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN, page 164:

This suggests, for one thing, that if our Australopithecoid ancestry possessed a brain-volume approximating that of a chimpanzee, in the late Tertiary, an additional 2 mitotic divisions over a period of some centimillennia would really not suggest that the human capacity is the product of an ‘explosion of brains’ under a terrific ‘selective pressure’, — as appears to be a current view of the matter.

1969, Earl W. Count, “Animal Communication in Man-Science: An Essay in Perspective”, in Thomas A. Sebeok, Julia Kristeva, Josette Rey-Debove, editors, Approaches to Animal Communication (“Approaches to Semiotics”, volume 1), Mouton & Co., →ISBN, page 98:

A lot of this book dealt with long periods of time. I coined words in there. There was no unit of time longer than a millennium in ordinary usage, which doesn't do at all. So I coined "decimillennium" and "centimillennium," and I used "millennium" for a million years. I doubt if you'd find those anywhere else, but it's pretty obvious what they mean. I really needed them in this book, because I was dealing in periods very much longer than a thousand years.

[1972, George R. Stewart, “INTERVIEW VI, […]”, in A Little of Myself, The Regents of the University of California, page 155:

Do the millennia and the centimillennia dash between us and this dream? Must the sun be extinguished and reignited a thousand times?

1997, Carleton Bulkin, transl., Hidden History, Twisted Spoon Press, translation of Skryté dějiny by Otokar Březina, →ISBN, page 132:

I see no reason not to consider Jackson the text of choice for the next millennium, or at least the next centimillennium.

1999, American Journal of Physics, volume 67, page 842, column 2:

(rare) A period of time consisting of one hundred thousand years.


gerospan

From gero- + span, modelled after lifespan.

The length of time in one's life where one is geriatric.


pcm

Rent £500 pcm.

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(in classified ads) Initialism of per calendar month.


quinquennalian

From Latin quīnquennis (“5-year”) + -an, from quīnque (“five”) + annus (“year”) + -is (“forming compound adjectives”).

Synonym of quinquennial: Of or related to a 5-year period.


time control

(especially chess) A mechanism in the tournament play of two-player board games in which each player has a set amount of time per game; the specific parameters of such a mechanism.

Bedenkzeit

mechanism in which each player has a set amount of time

Smyslov was a piece up against him with two moves to go before time control when he missed three winning lines and drew.

2014, Andrew Soltis, Soviet Chess 1917-1991, page 243:

(chess) A point in the game in which the parameters of the time limits increase, especially in classical chess.


Elon time

From Elon Musk's overly optimistic projections of launch/completion dates.

(automotive, astronautics, journalism) An estimated time of arrival (ETA), that is exceedingly optimistic, needing to be doubled or tripled to arrive at a reasonable estimate. Used by journalists, editorialists, and fans, concerning the ETAs of milestones and products from commercial spacelaunch provider SpaceX and electric car maker Tesla, Inc.; as well as other endeavours of Elon Musk.


dawn of time

since the dawn of time

Klencory is famously claimed by the eccentric volus billionaire Kumun Shol. He claims that a vision of a higher being told him to seek on Klencory the "lost crypts of beings of light". These entities were supposedly created at the dawn of time to protect organic life from synthetic "machine devils."

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Klencory:

The beginning of time, of the universe, of the world, of mankind or of history.


the day before

On the preceding day; the day before. (This entry is a translation hub.)


the next day

The day that follows the one just spoken about. (This entry is a translation hub.)

səhərisi gün

the day that follows the one just spoken about


hydrogen maser atomic clock

en-noun

hydrogen maser atomic clock (plural hydrogen maser atomic clocks)

An atomic clock which uses the 1.4 GHz transition in a hydrogen atom to measure time to within 0.45 nanosecond over a span of twelve hours.


lost in time

Possibly a shortening of the phrase lost in the mists of time.

(science fiction) Lost during time travel.


clock hour

A full sixty-minute period (as opposed to a scheduled length of time that is called an "hour" but not equivalent to sixty minutes, such as a student hour).


clocktime

clocktime (countable and uncountable, plural clocktimes)

(physics) The elapsed time as measured by a stationary observer.


not a moment too soon

There's impatience too: He writes that Morrison "expired, bloated and burnt out, in a bathtub in Paris at 27, not a moment too soon. His life was a bad influence."

1991, “Top Spin”, in SPIN, June, vol 7 number 3 edition, page 10:

not a minute too soon
not a minute too soon#English


none too soon

Tommy took to his heels and ran—none too soon. The front door opened and a hail of bullets followed him. Fortunately none of them hit him. He turned the corner of the square.

1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 17”, in The Secret Adversary:


Coronatide

/kəˈɹəʊnəˌtaɪd/

From corona(virus) + -tide (suffix meaning ‘time’, denoting seasons), by analogy with liturgical seasons such as Christmastide and Eastertide.

suffix

At IHOP for breakfast and the COVID-19 protocols are in full swing. Every surface is being constantly wiped down with sanitizer, no shared bottles of syrup, ketchup, and condiments, and sparse, unadorned tables. Welcome to coronatide. 😐

2020 March 14, Matthew Ciszek, “At IHOP for breakfast […]”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 2020-03-14:

Nowhere in the letter do the writers express a desire to know what is going on with the recipient; they do not wish to listen, learn, or truly befriend. They seem, above all, to want compliance. They want butts in pews, or at least the coronatide equivalent.

2020 July 10, Jana Riess, “If you want to win Latter-Day Saints back to the church, shame and fear are not how to do it”, in The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, Ut.: Salt Lake Tribune, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-12-31:

In this unsettling season of Coronatide we find ourselves beset by change, some welcome, some unwelcome.

2021, William Franklin, “Preface: Two Movements of the Past that Inform the Future”, in C[harles] Andrew Doyle, Embodied Liturgy: Virtual Reality and Liturgical Theology in Conversation, New York, N.Y.: Church Publishing, →ISBN, page xx:

Coronatide made it hard to go an hour or two without snacking, but we’re past that now, and Mass is definitely not the place for the munchies.

2022 October 4, Katie Burke, “Ready for Mass: Churching like a pro”, in The Catholic Sun, Phoenix, Ariz.: Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-16:

As we continue to reckon with the devastating psychological and social impact of Coronatide, Thomas is a reliable guide to the interior caverns of our hearts and minds.

2024, Oliver Keenan, Why Aquinas Matters Now, London: Bloomsbury Continuum, →ISBN, page 2:

(Christianity, neologism) The period of the COVID-19 pandemic.


COVIDtide

Alternative letter-case form of Covidtide.


standard meridian

It is intended that local time at any place on the surface of the globe shall generally be regulated by the standard meridian nearest or most convenient to such place in longitude.

1884, International Institute for Preserving and Perfecting Weights and Measures, Committee on Standard Time, What Shall be the Prime Meridian for the World?, page 22:

The meridian used for determining standard time.


quingenary

/ˈkwɪnd͡ʒəˌnɛɹi/

From Latin quīngēnārius (“containing 500”), from Latin quīngēnī (“500 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from quīngentī (“five hundreds”). Cognate with quingenarious and quinquagenary.

(rare) Synonym of quincentennial: A 500th anniversary.


cosmic calendar

en-noun

cosmic calendar (plural cosmic calendars)

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A model of the chronology of the universe, scaling its currently accepted age of 13.8 billion years to a single year.


insertion time

insertion time (countable and uncountable, plural insertion times)

(nuclear physics) The length of time which is required to rearrange a subcritical mass of fissile material into a prompt critical mass.


tropical month

The average time for the Moon to pass twice through the same equinox point of the sky (27.32158 days).


digital immigrant

digital immigrant (plural digital immigrants)

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(technology, sociology) A person who was born or raised before the widespread use of digital technology.


deep time

Coined by American writer John McPhee in 1981.

coin

Numbers do not seem to work well with regard to deep time. Any number above a couple of thousand years—fifty thousand, fifty million—will with nearly equal effect awe the imagination to the point of paralysis.

1981, John McPhee, Basin and Range, New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, →ISBN, page 20:

Yet deep time seemed impervious to the methods of conventional history writing, a state of affairs captured in the word coined to describe this newly remote past: prehistory.

2011, Andrew Shryock, Daniel Lord Smail, Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present, University of California Press, →ISBN, page x:

The organization of deep time was the special mission of geology, and it set about chronicling rocks into a temporal stratigraphy.

2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, “Eiszeit and Zeitgeist”, in The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:

But Hutton’s insights really came into their own in the Romantic era of the 19th century. The affective register of deep time was one of terror and wonder, fashioned to fit a vision of the sublime that transcended and yet somehow affirmed humanity.

2016 October 31, David Farrier, “How the Concept of Deep Time Is Changing”, in The Atlantic:

The events of 1859 brought humans and geology together. The idea of deep time was not new. It had been conclusively demonstrated by the international efforts of many geologists culminating, for the British, in Charles Lyell's (1797–1875) Principles of Geology published in three volumes between 1830 and 1833—a book which accompanied Darwin on The Beagle.

2021, Clive Gamble, Making Deep History: Zeal, Perseverance, and the Time Revolution of 1859, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

Sellafield compels this kind of gaze into the abyss of deep time because it is a place where multiple time spans – some fleeting, some cosmic – drift in and out of view.

2022 December 15, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:


geologic time

Geologic time is simply time used in the context of earth history, determined by geologic methods. Our only record of the passage of geologic time lies in the Earth's rock strata. This record is imperfect, but it is our only one.

1978, George Vincent Cohee, Martin Fritz Glaessner, Hollis Dow Hedberg, editors, Contributions to the Geologic Time Scale […] , American Association of Petroleum Geologists, →ISBN, page 34:

Time in relation to specific geologic features or events recorded in the Earth's rock strata.


giga-annum

giga-annums (plural)
gigaannum (alternative)
gigannum (alternative)
Ga (alternative)

Geophysicists today estimate the earth’s age to be 4.5–4.6 Ga (giga-annums = 1 x 10⁹ years) based on data from lead isotopes (Dalrymple 403).

2000, A. S. Weber, Nineteenth-Century Science: An Anthology, →ISBN, page 387:

We report here the sequencing and genomic analysis of the SDR of Ectocarpus, a brown alga that has been evolving independently from plants, animals, and fungi for over one giga-annum.

2014, Sophia Ahmed et al., “A Haploid System of Sex Determination in the Brown Alga Ectocarpus sp.”, in Current Biology, volume 24, number 17, →DOI:

Possible cyanobacteria from the Apex charts of western Australia, which have been dated at ~3.5 (giga-annums, or billions of years).

2018, Ronald Martin, Earth’s Evolving Systems: The History of Planet Earth, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 214:


frozen star

frozen+star
* (stellar black hole, black hole alternative): From relativity predicting the passage of time slowing to a stop as the star collapses through its event horizon, "freezing" time and the star.
* (Population 0 star): From the existence of frozen volatiles, such as water ice, existing in the atmosphere and on the surface of such a star

sense

Synonym of frozar (A proposed theoretical alternative to black holes.)


frozar

From froze + -ar. From being a star frozen in time.

(astrophysics) Synonym of frozen star (“black hole alternative”) An astrophysical star stilled to a stop by gravitational relativistic time dilation effects, during its final collapse at the end of its fusion lifetime


frozon

From froze + -on. From being a particle that is so heavy, having Planck energy / Planck mass, that its self-gravitation results in a relativistic gravitational field so extreme that gravitational time dilation slows time to a stop, freezing time.

(particle physics) A proposed type of theoretical particle, a Planck-scale particle with Planck energy, whose field fluctuations are frozen in time due to self-gravitational time dilation.


chronocentrism

The perception that a particular time period is uniquely important or impactful.


Copernican time principle

An extension of the Copernican principle (“a principle which states that the location of humanity has no special significance”).

(cosmology) A principle which states that the current time has no special significance.


kiloday

(science fiction, rare) A period of one thousand days.


quectosecond

Within SI there is the zeptosecond: 1 zs = 0.001 as = 10⁻²¹ s, and the yoctosecond: 1 ys = 0.001 zs = 10⁻²⁴ s. The CIPM has prepared draft resolutions submitted to and to be voted on by the CGPM in 2022–11, one of which involves four additional scaling prefixes to SI, two of which are relevant to the question. These prefixes will not be official unless and until approved by the CGPM, so there is a small risk that I am jumping the gun: the rontosecond: 1 rs = 0.001 ys = 10⁻²⁷ s; the quectosecond: 1 qs = 0.001 rs = 10⁻³⁰ s.

2022 March 19, Howard Ludwig, “Is there a unit of time smaller than an attosecond?”, in quora.com:

quectosecond rontosecond plank time zeptosecond

2023 February 24, eladl, “What is smaller than a yoctosecond?”, in math.answers.com:

You may be interested to take a look at one of the earlier uses of those two new designations, Rontosecond and Quectosecond, officially cited as such from your meetings from 15-18 November 2022 in Paris, of the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) of your International Commission of Weights and Measures (BIPM) whereby you all adopted Resolution 3 making it a globally acceptable name for the range 10−30 to 10−32 of the infinitesimal scale of time.

2023 May 20, Bruce, “The Work of the Bureau International Poids et Mesures (BIPM)”, in https://81018.com:

386 milliseconds, 45 microseconds, 789 nanoseconds, 2 picoseconds, 456 femtoseconds, 13 attoseconds, 987 zeptoseconds, 78 yoctoseconds, 3 rontoseconds, 89 quectoseconds, and 1 planck time with 3 cherries on top.

2023 August 28, EA-PLANT, MyMoose1227, “Hognose attack. How long until death?”, in reddit.com, archived from the original on 2023-12-07:

nanoseconds. picoseconds. femtoseconds. attoseconds. zeptoseconds. yoctoseconds. rontoseconds. quectoseconds.

2023 October 3, GamerY7, the_fungible_man, “The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023”, in reddit.com:

Faster than that. You can find evaporation calculators online like this one. The lifetime of a black hole with a schwarzchild radius of 1 Planck length has a lifetime of 1111 Planck time, or around 10-41 seconds, which is 10-11 quectoseconds. SI prefixes don’t go any smaller.

2024 August 12, LackingUtility, SqoobySnaq, “ELI5: How is Planck length the shortest distance possible? Couldn’t you just split that length in half and have 1/2 planck length?”, in reddit.com:

Alright, so first I needed to know how much that is in a planck, that is very important, because I say so. so, divide to a lunar year, than into a semester, than a quarantine, than month, than a lunation, fortnight, megasecond, week, day, hour, kilosecond, moment, milliday, hectosecond, minute, decasecond, second, decisecond, centisecond, a jiffy, millisecond, microsecond, a shake, nanosecond, picosecond, Svedberg, femtosecond, attosecond, zeptosecond, a jiffy (lvl 2), yoctosecond, rontosecond and a quectosecond before I got to the final answer of 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000038808 dollar per planck.

2024 August 31, CDFrey1, collnska, “$5,000,000 a year but once a month you have to experience birth.”, in reddit.com:

I guess u/dml997 should have spent at least a couple of quectoseconds awake in science class.

2024 October 6, Mountain_Future4034, ralphonsob, “TIL that a zeptosecond is a trillionth of a billionth of a second. It is the smallest unit of time ever measured.”, in reddit.com:

(metrology) An SI unit of time equal to 10⁻³⁰ seconds. Symbol: qs


decay constant

In a radioactive material, an atom's probability, per unit time, of decaying; it is related to half-life by the equation t_1/2=(ln 2)/λ, where t_1/2 is the half-life, and λ is the decay constant.


technetium star

en-noun

technetium star (plural technetium stars)

(astrophysics) A star in which technetium has been detected. Technetium is too short-lived to occur primordially in the star, if the star is about 4.5 billion years old (the estimated age of the Earth), so the star must be producing technetium.


chronomancer

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:chronomancer.

(fantasy) One who specializes in magic involving time, for example manipulating time or divining the future.


date of death

date of death (plural dates of death or dates of deaths)

dates of death (plural)
dates of deaths (plural)

The date and year something or someone died.


Dvapara Yuga

Unadapted borrowing from Sanskrit द्वापरयुग (dvāparayuga, “age of two”), द्वापर (dvāpara, “two”) + युग (yuga, “yuga”).

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Dvaparayuga (alternative)
Dvapara-Yuga (alternative)

(Hinduism) The third of four stages of development that the world goes through as part of the cycle of yugas; it lasts for 864,000 years.


ronnasecond

(metrology) An SI unit of time equal to 10²⁷ seconds. Symbol: Rs


academic quarter

en-noun

academic quarter (plural academic quarters)

The traditional fifteen-minutes discrepancy between the time a university lecture nominally will start (according to schedule) and the time it actually starts, used in some educational institutions.


nanofortnight

Holonyms: millifortnight < fortnight

(humorous) A period of time equal to one billionth of a fortnight, or exactly 1.2096 milliseconds.


millifortnight

Holonym: fortnight

Meronym: nanofortnight

(humorous) A period of time equal to one thousandth of a fortnight, which is exactly 1209.6 seconds, or about 20 minutes.


nanocentury

From nano- (“1 billionth”) + century (“100 years”).

prefix

(humorous) A unit of time equal to one billionth of a century or approximately 3.156 seconds.


vigintennial

From viginti- (“twenty”) + -ennial (“yearly”), from Latin vīgintī (“twenty”) and -enniālis, from annus (“year”) + -is (“forming compound adjectives”) + -ālis (“-al: forming adjectives”).

af

(rare) Synonym of vicennial, occurring every twenty years.


characteristic time

en-noun

characteristic time (countable and uncountable, plural characteristic times)

(physical chemistry, physics) The order of magnitude of the reaction time scale of a system; the inverse of the reaction rate.


non-Archimedean time

non-Archimedean time (countable and uncountable, plural non-Archimedean times)

(time) A theory of time that posits that there exist instants infinitely in the future or infinitely in the past.


ante-historic

en-adj

ante-historic (comparative more ante-historic, superlative most ante-historic)

more ante-historic (comparative)
most ante-historic (superlative)


vampire time

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In vampire time Aleya had not really been around that long, but the sound, the scent, the routines that were uniquely her were missing. He missed her.

2010, Oliver Bonewits, Of Blood And Magic - A Vampire's Story, page 215:

Ah, she was young in real time or vampire time?

2016, Kathryn Meyer Griffith, The Last Vampire, page 214:

Such elaborate patterning is made possible by vampire time and enables both stasis – the male vampire's desire for his true love remains unchanged over the years – and change – the object of that love may actually change as it is switched from one female to another.

2016, Lorna Jowett, Kevin Robinson, David Simmons, Time on TV, page 130:

He was younger than Nikolai by a few hundred years which, in vampire time, was not that much.

2020, Isadora Brown, The Vampire's Executioner:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see vampire, time.

Time, when considered relative to a vampire's immortal lifespan.


time vampire

The telephone is to time vampires what blood banks are to real vampires.

1994, Davida Jean Weinberg, Reciprocity Reconsidered, page 287:

TV is the biggest time vampire in our culture.

Believe it or not, a "gentle clue" to a time vampire is the equivalent of a two-by-four over the head for most people.

2004, Shaun Belding, Winning with the Customer from Hell, page 184:

The night is a time-vampire as far as taking care of your skin goes.

2005, Judy Steinberg, Raechel Donahue, The Ropes: Girls Have the Rules, Women Know the Ropes, page 159:

That any systematic critique of the capitalist employer as time vampire is thereby short-circuited is plain.

2013, T. Ferguson, Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes, page 24:

Yes, the apps on your computer and phone are the biggest time vampires of all time.

2020, Brent Spencer, A Handbook for the Online Student: Learning in Difficult Times:

(informal, derogatory) A person, obligation, or activity that drains one's time; a time-waster.

Do you mean that Jarmyn Thanatos is some kind of a— a time vampire?

1997, Brad Strickland, John Bellairs, The Bell, the Book and the Spellbinder:

“I'm a time vampire,” Loretta Vampireclanso-called-jiangshi said. “I can take time from people, or give it away.”

2017, Emily Martha Sorensen, Trials of a Teenage Werevulture:

But I was laying low, and vampires can't always be choosers, even time vampires.

(science fiction) A variety of vampire that feeds off time or potential years of life.


bat of an eye

en-noun

bat of an eye (usually uncountable, plural bats of an eye)


confinement time

confinement time (countable and uncountable, plural confinement times)

autoignition temperature
autoignition temperature

(nuclear physics) The amount of time the plasma is maintained at a temperature above the critical autoignition temperature; in this case the temperature needed to start a fusion.


local mean sidereal time

local mean sidereal time (countable and uncountable, plural local mean sidereal times)

(astronomy, time) A time scale indicating the immediate position of an observer relative to the stars, calculated by adding the longitude of the observer, measured east of Greenwich, to Greenwich sidereal time (GMST).


slowing-down time

(relativity) A form of time dilation, in which a clock slows down as determined by an observer who is in relative motion with respect to the clock, often when closely approaching the speed of light.


Terrestrial Time

(astronomy, time) A modern astronomical time standard defined by the International Astronomical Union, primarily for time-measurements of astronomical observations made from the surface of the Earth.


magnetic local time

magnetic local time (countable and uncountable, plural magnetic local times)

(astronomy, time) A parameter measuring the time at a location on the surface of the Earth based on the Earth's magnetic field, often used to describe a position in near-earth space.


local sidereal time

local sidereal time (countable and uncountable, plural local sidereal times)

(astronomy, time) A sidereal time of a specific location on the Earth, depending on the longitude of the point.


primary time standard

primary time standard (countable and uncountable, plural primary time standards)

(time, telecommunications) A time standard that does not require calibration against another time standard.


mean sidereal time

mean sidereal time (countable and uncountable, plural mean sidereal times)

(astronomy, time) The hour angle between the meridian of Greenwich and the mean equinox of a specific date at Universal Time.


ordinal date

(time) A calendar day consisting of a year and an ordinal number, ranging from 1 to 366, representing the multiples of a day.


wikitime

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(computing, Internet, time) A time standard or timestamp used in Wikipedia and its affiliates, set to Greenwich Mean Time, and encoded as 24-hour time-day-month-year.


semiyear

The 1934 act, as amended in 1964, requires most corporations with 500 or more stockholders and $1 million in assets to file these reports with the SEC: 10K (the annual report) to be filed within 120 days of the close of the fiscal year, 9K (the semiannual report) to be filed within 45 days of the end of the semiyear, and 8K (the current report) to be filed after important happening(s), for example, changes in company's capital stock, election of new officers, etc.

1984, Damodar N. Gujarati, “[The Effects of Regulation on Disclosure of Information] The Benston Study”, in Government and Business, New York, N.Y. […]: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →ISBN, part 3 (Economic Regulation), section 14 (The SEC and Regulation of the Securities Markets), footnote 23, page 366:

First step: Find the interest (I₁) earned at the end of the first semiyear, 6 months.

2000, Fabián Lacret-Subirat, “Interest Problems”, in Lacret HS-Math Self-Tutoring (Solving Word-Problems), [Lacret Publishing Company], →ISBN, page 47, column 2:

Sure, but that is not everyday (or perhaps every semiyear!) experience for the "man on the Clapham omnibus", whereas 23/24/25 is (except '68-'70 in the UK!).

2014 March 31, Tom Gardner, “Daylight savings date identification over the net”, in comp.arch.embedded (Usenet):

(rare) Half of a year; a period of six months.


Satya Yuga

Satya Yugas (plural)
Satyayuga (alternative)
Satya-Yuga (alternative)

Unadapted borrowing from Sanskrit सत्य युग (satya yuga).

ubor

(Hinduism) The first and best of four stages of development that the world goes through as part of the cycle of yugas; it lasts for 1,728,000 years.


Israel Daylight Time

(time) The practice in Israel by which clocks are advanced by one hour, beginning on the Friday before the last Sunday of March, and ending on the last Sunday of October.


Madras Time

(time, historical) A time zone established in 1802 in British India.


Bombay Time

(time, historical) One of the two official time zones established in British India in 1884.


French Revolutionary Time

(time, historical) A decimal time system used in France during the French Revolution from 1794 to 1800.


Central European Midsummer Time

(time, historical) A time zone, UTC+3, that was used as a double summer time in several European countries during the 1940s.


kiloannum

(rare) One thousand years; a millennium.


New York second

en-noun

New York second (plural New York seconds)

Synonym of New York minute (“short instant of time”).


multicentury

Dr. Weber and her colleagues are the latest custodians of the Beal seed viability experiment: a multicentury attempt to figure out how long seeds can lie dormant in the soil without losing their ability to germinate.

2021 April 21, Cara Giaimo, “One of the World’s Oldest Science Experiments Comes Up From the Dirt”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2021-04-21:


in the big 25

Ohio jokes?! In the big 25?!

(Internet slang) In the year 2025, i.e. the present time; said to draw attention to something that is outdated.


multiminute

On this week’s episode of “Legion,” Kondracki used her considerable talents to fulfill the promise of creator Noah Hawley’s iconoclastic but inconsistent pilot episode and its subsequent installments. Funnily enough, she did so with another multiminute opening shot.

2017 March 1, Sean T. Collins, “‘Legion’ Season 1, Episode 4: Mind Games”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2017-03-07:


time is on one's side

The tyrant may have won, but eventually, he will grow old and die. His regime will tear itself to pieces, as the same tyrant's army will fight itself over whoever will succeed him. Time is on the people's side.

Well, time is on my side, yes it is / Time is on my side, yes it is / 'Cause I got the real love, the kind that you need

1964, “Time Is on My Side”, Jimmy Norman (lyrics), Jerry Ragovoy (music), performed by The Rolling Stones:

Used to refer that someone will eventually win against an opponent by waiting for the opponent's eventual defeat.