noun
an arrangement of events used as a measure of duration
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on the geological time scale mankind has existed but for a brief moment
• Hypernyms: ↑duration, ↑continuance
• Hyponyms: ↑extended time scale, ↑slow time scale, ↑fast time scale
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noun : an arrangement of events used as a measure of the relative or absolute duration or antiquity of a period of history or geologic or cosmic time
on the time scale of modern cosmology his brief and fevered existence seems a mere flash in the pan — Times Literary Supplement
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time scale,
any sequence of events used as a measure of the length or duration of a period of time.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.