time scale
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an arrangement of events used as a measure of duration
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It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.
Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.
I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.
on the geological time scale mankind has existed but for a brief moment
Alternatively, the frequency of the sinusoids in a sinusoidal model may be altered directly, and the signal reconstructed at the appropriate time scale.
An example of a kind of time standard can be a time scale, specifying a method for measuring divisions of time.