time units
Seconds, minutes, hours
Time units are standardized intervals for measuring duration.
The most common are seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years, with smaller units like milliseconds for precise measurements and larger ones like decades and centuries for historical spans.
The recipe calls for cooking time in minutes, not hours.
Scientific contexts use units like nanoseconds or light-years, while casual speech invents flexible units: Give me a sec, I'll be there in a minute.
- split secondInfinitesimal unit of time
- secondUnit smaller than minute
- minuteSixtieth of an hour
- hourSixty-minute span
- golden hourWarm-lit period near sunset
happy hour · day · week · month · year · leap year · fiscal year · decade · century · millennium · moment · New York minute · instant · heartbeat · tick · noon · midnight · dawn
time unitseternity
Boundless temporal existence
timelessness · infinity · the eternal · perpetuity · atemporality
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