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Time unit   /taɪm jˈunət/   Listen
Time unit

noun
1.
A unit for measuring time periods.  Synonym: unit of time.






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"Time unit" Quotes from Famous Books



... melody. The successive variations were all in the same key; the harmonic basis was practically unchanged and the treatment consisted of dressing up the theme with stereotyped embellishment-figures and of systematic rhythmic animation—produced by the addition of more and more notes to each time unit. A standard illustration of this type of Variations is the so-called Harmonious Blacksmith of Handel from his Suite in E Major. This piece owes whatever popularity it may have preserved to the sturdy ...
— Music: An Art and a Language • Walter Raymond Spalding



Words linked to "Time unit" :   twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period, 60 minutes, 24-hour interval, picosecond, night, attosecond, min, TDT, month, 30 minutes, ephemeris time, femtosecond, hour, second, millisecond, minute, s, half-hour, sec, solar day, mean time, quarter-hour, quarter, mean solar day, ship's bell, TT, quantity, hr, mean solar time, sidereal day, msec, measure, bell, terrestrial time, terrestrial dynamical time, microsecond, day, nanosecond, 15 minutes, amount



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