Wiktionary
alt. A series of events used as a rough measure of duration. n. A series of events used as a rough measure of duration.
WordNet
n. an arrangement of events used as a measure of duration; "on the geological time scale mankind has existed but for a brief moment"
Wikipedia
Time scale may refer to:
- Time standard, a specification of either the rate at which time passes, points in time, or both
- A duration or quantity of time:
- Orders of magnitude (time) as a power of 10 in seconds;
- A specific unit of time
- Geological time scale, a scale that divides up the history of Earth into scientifically meaningful periods
In astronomy and physics:
- Dynamical time scale, in stellar physics, the time in which changes in one part of a body can be communicated to the rest of that body, or in celestial mechanics, a realization of a time-like argument based on a dynamical theory
- Nuclear timescale, an estimate of the lifetime of a star based solely on its rate of fuel consumption
- Thermal time scale, an estimate of the lifetime of a star once the fuel reserves at its center are used up
In cosmology and particle physics:
- Planck time, the time scale beneath which quantum effects are comparable in significance to gravitational effects
In mathematics:
- Time-scale calculus, the unification of the theory of difference equations with differential equations
In music:
- Rhythm, a temporal pattern of events
- Time scale (music), which divides music into sections of time
Usage examples of "time scale".
He accelerated the time scale further, until the kidney-bean ellipses arced back and forth around the sun.
In the next four days, while his house, so to speak, flitted through space from time force line to time force line, and Porniarsk watched that process fascinatedly with the control console, Obsidian drew me a picture of some forty-odd thousand years of known history-on the time scale of our galaxy-and an unknown amount of time before that in which life was nearly destroyed by the time storm, but in which the foundation of a universal community was discovered and erected.
If you use a long enough time scale, every one of the thousands of genes a flesh-and-blood carries is a mutation.
True feudalism has been kept in full flower far longer here than in our world and time scale.
Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee had come back--a spirit in whose time scale it was still that Thursday morning in 1908, with the economics class gazing up at the battered desk on the platform.