define time?

Answer 1

Time is the measure of events in relation to each other. In other words one event will occur before, during or after another ... and so on.

Answer 2

There's lots of ways to define time. One of the more popular renditions comes from dictionary.com:

time
1. A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.

Alternatively, you can think of the universe in terms of variables. At any given moment, your location is determined by three positional variables (x, y, and z - set the origin wherever you like) and one temporal value, t. "Time" is the path you follow when your t-variable changes.

Answer 3

# an instance or single occasion for some event; "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip"
# an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities); "he waited a long time"; "the time of year for planting"; "he was a great actor is his time"
# a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something; "take time to smell the roses"; "I didn't have time to finish"; "it took more than half my time"
# a suitable moment; "it is time to go"
# the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
# clock time: the time as given by a clock; "do you know what time it is?"; "the time is 10 o'clock"
# clock: measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time; "he clocked the runners"
# fourth dimension: the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
# assign a time for an activity or event; "The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene"
# a person's experience on a particular occasion; "he had a time holding back the tears"; "they had a good time together"
# set the speed, duration, or execution of; "we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely"
# meter: rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
# regulate or set the time of; "time the clock"
# prison term: the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned; "he served a prison term of 15 months"; "his sentence was 5 to 10 years"; "he is doing time in the county jail"
# adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time; "The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely"

Answer 4

Time is only known to us because we can remember what happened to us yesterday and five years ago (some of us.) Months (moon) are based on Lunar cycles, years on the time it takes the earth revolve around the sun, and days the amont of time it takes the earth to spin completely aroun on it's axis. You have to think that early farming societeies had to benefit from knowing when to plant their seeds, when to move south, etc. Thus the concept of time we have today

Answer 5

1. A bad-*** Pink Floyd song
2, Something that just gets you in trouble

Answer 6

a man made measurement to help organize past present and future into a sequence of irreversable events. or somesh*t

Answer 7

time is like a tide, u can never stop it, as the saying goes "Time And Tide Waites For None"

Answer 8

Time is the stuff that keeps everything from happening all at once.

Answer 9

It's something you monitor when you clock in at work.