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Definition of Time
Pronunciation: tīm | n. | 1. | Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof. | | 2. | A particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as, the time was, or has been; the time is, or will be. | | 3. | The period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the time of Queen Elizabeth; - often in the plural; as, ancient times; modern times. | | 4. | The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal. | | 5. | A proper time; a season; an opportunity. | | 6. | Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition. | | 7. | Performance or occurrence of an action or event, considered with reference to repetition; addition of a number to itself; repetition; as, to double cloth four times; four times four, or sixteen. | | 8. | The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration. | | 9. | (Gram.) Tense. | | 10. | (Mus.) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time.| Civil time | | time as reckoned for the purposes of common life in distinct periods, as years, months, days, hours, etc., the latter, among most modern nations, being divided into two series of twelve each, and reckoned, the first series from midnight to noon, the second, from noon to midnight. |
| Standard time | | the civil time that has been established by law or by general usage over a region or country. In England the standard time is Greenwich mean solar time. In the United States and Canada four kinds of standard time have been adopted by the railroads and accepted by the people, viz., Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific time, corresponding severally to the mean local times of the 75th, 90th, 105th, and 120th meridians west from Greenwich, and being therefore five, six, seven, and eight hours slower than Greenwich time. |
| | v. t. | 1. | To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly. | | 2. | To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement. | | 3. | To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as, to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen. | | 4. | To measure, as in music or harmony. | | v. i. | 1. | To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time. | | 2. | To pass time; to delay. |
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