TIME SCALE

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Meaning:

An arrangement of events used as a measure of duration

Example:

on the geological time scale mankind has existed but for a brief moment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("time scale" is a kind of...):

continuance; duration (the period of time during which something continues)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "time scale"):

extended time scale; slow time scale ((simulation) the time scale used in data processing when the time-scale factor is greater than one)

fast time scale ((simulation) the time scale used in data processing when the time-scale factor is less than one)