time unit
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- noun
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unidad de tiempo
- In biology class, we learned about the different time units used to measure the life cycles of organisms.
- year time unit
Examples
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This resulted in 18 10-year time units and 67 ratios (number of species in 10 years).
Academic text (2010) -
She entitles her autobiographical novel Those Memories (Tilka al-Thikrayat), and cleverly handles different time units.
Academic text (1993) -
This allowance can be easily translated to time units as well.
Academic text (2010) -
And so off on the left, the left two columns are both time units, just expect somewhat differently.
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That's just a choice of the relation between time units and space units.
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And every such time unit it sends out one photon.
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When scheduling a meeting, it's important to specify the time unit, such as hours or minutes.
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The experiment was conducted over several time units to gather accurate data.
Synonyms
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A fixed amount used to measure or count things
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A fixed amount used as a standard to measure length, weight, or volume
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A standard amount of time used to measure how long something lasts like a second or minute
A standard amount used to measure things like length or weight
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a unit of measurement of time' is directly and transparently composed from 'time' (the temporal continuum) + 'unit' (a defined quantity for measurement). This straightforward noun-noun composition follows a common semantic pattern across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Time unit names one fixed amount of time. Think of a unit as a small box used to count things and of time as what we count. A time unit, for example a second or an hour, is that box we use 'to measure time', so we use it to say 'how long' something lasts.