Time Unit
Of measure. May also be referred to as unit of time.
A unit for measuring time periods.
This concept's ID is @1~76817
Hour
- hour
A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour".
- minute
A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour; "he ran a 4 minute mile".
- half-hour
A half of an hour.
- quarter-hour
A quarter of an hour.
- quarter
A unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour; "it's a quarter til 4"; "a quarter...
Femtosecond
- femtosecond
One quadrillionth (10^-15) of a second; one thousandth of a picosecond.
- attosecond
One quintillionth (10^-18) of a second; one thousandth of a femtosecond.
Nanosecond
- picosecond
One trillionth (10^-12) of a second; one thousandth of a nanosecond.
- nanosecond
One billionth (10^-9) of a second; one thousandth of a microsecond.
Millisecond
- microsecond
One millionth (10^-6) of a second; one thousandth of a millisecond.
- millisecond
One thousandth (10^-3) of a second.
Astronomy
- mean time
(astronomy) time based on the motion of the mean sun (an imaginary sun moving uniformly...
- TT
(astronomy) a measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion; terrestrial time is mean solar...
Also contains
- day
Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; "two days later they left"; "they put...
- month
A time unit of approximately 30 days; "he was given a month to pay the bill".
- second
1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unite...
- bell
(nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's...
- night
The dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit; "three nights later he collaps...
- day
The time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes...