unit of time
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- noun
- /ˈjuːnɪt əv taɪm/
- Specialized
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unidad de tiempo
- And I find the key is to think of a day as units of time, each unit consisting of no more than 30 minutes.
- units of time spent
- longer units of time
It's very high resolution in the amount of information it conveys to the brain per unit of time.
- It's very high resolution in the amount of information it conveys to the brain per unit of time.
- So if we didn't use those, we could actually pick our unit of length and our unit of time to be sizes where the speed of light actually equals one.
- You know The blinking: between units of time.
Examples
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The unit of time used in most scientific experiments is the second.
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My life is made up of units of time.
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A similar system was employed for longer units of time: weeks, months, years.
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OK, so that would be the shortest unit of time possible.
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EEG readings also provide a summary of brain activity during very small units of time.
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Perhaps the most significant units of time for Almanac are the larger epochs.
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The governors regarded the traditional credit-hour system as an inadequate means of measuring student learning, based as it is on units of time spent in class.
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The axes represent total carbon (C) and phosphorus (P) acquisition per unit of time.
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Each box indicates an equal unit of time—a single beat—while "X" indicates when an instrument is struck.
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In everyday life, we measure time using familiar units of time like minutes and hours.
Synonyms
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A measure that shows an amount of time, like a second or minute
A standard amount used to measure things like length or weight
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a standard quantity for measuring intervals of time' is directly and compositionally derived from 'unit' (a defined quantity) + 'of' (linking relation) + 'time' (the temporal continuum). This noun-of-noun construction is cross-linguistically common and follows regular semantic composition, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will understand the phrase.
Etymology
Unit of time is a compound built from the idea of a single measuring piece for time: unit means 'one fixed piece' and time is the period we count, like a second or minute. So a unit of time is a standard piece we use to measure or compare how long things last.