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time-scale

n. (alternative spelling of time scale English)

Usage examples of "time-scale".

It was as if there had been a brief explosion of life, recapitulating on a trillionfold swifter time-scale the early history of Earth.

To use the symbolic language of Bodkin's schema, he would then be abandoning the conventional estimates of time in relation to his own physical needs and entering the world of total, neuronic time, where the massive intervals of the geological time-scale calibrated his existence.