How would you define the word 'time'.?

Answer 1

time (tm) KEY

NOUN:


A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.
An interval separating two points on this continuum; a duration: a long time since the last war; passed the time reading.
A number, as of years, days, or minutes, representing such an interval: ran the course in a time just under four minutes.
A similar number representing a specific point on this continuum, reckoned in hours and minutes: checked her watch and recorded the time, 6:17 a.m.
A system by which such intervals are measured or such numbers are reckoned: solar time.

An interval, especially a span of years, marked by similar events, conditions, or phenomena; an era. Often used in the plural: hard times; a time of troubles.
times The present with respect to prevailing conditions and trends: You must change with the times.
A suitable or opportune moment or season: a time for taking stock of one's life.

Periods or a period designated for a given activity: harvest time; time for bed.
Periods or a period necessary or available for a given activity: I have no time for golf.
A period at one's disposal: Do you have time for a chat?
An appointed or fated moment, especially of death or giving birth: He died before his time. Her time is near.

One of several instances: knocked three times; addressed Congress for the last time before retirement.
times Used to indicate the number of instances by which something is multiplied or divided: This tree is three times taller than that one. My library is many times smaller than hers.

One's lifetime.
One's period of greatest activity or engagement.
A person's experience during a specific period or on a certain occasion: had a good time at the party.

A period of military service.
A period of apprenticeship.
Informal A prison sentence.

The customary period of work: hired for full time.
The period spent working.
The hourly pay rate: earned double time on Sundays.
The period during which a radio or television program or commercial is broadcast: "There's television time to buy" (Brad Goldstein).
The rate of speed of a measured activity: marching in double time.
Music
The meter of a musical pattern: three-quarter time.
The rate of speed at which a piece of music is played; the tempo.
Chiefly British The hour at which a pub closes.
Sports A time-out.
ADJECTIVE:

Of, relating to, or measuring time.
Constructed so as to operate at a particular moment: a time release.
Payable on a future date or dates.
Of or relating to installment buying: time payments.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
timed , tim·ing , times
To set the time for (an event or occasion).
To adjust to keep accurate time.
To adjust so that a force is applied or an action occurs at the desired time: timed his swing so as to hit the ball squarely.
To record the speed or duration of: time a runner.
To set or maintain the tempo, speed, or duration of: time a manufacturing process.

Answer 2

You'll hear a lot of non-sense on this but time is very hard to define. Mathematically it is easier to define clocks than it is time. At small or short intervals it runs in both directions. It is probaably best defined as a statistic.

Answer 3

"Time" is a concoction derived of a need for man to define things he has no control over.
Time does not actually exist. There is only "now". And that will always be the same time.
Hands on a clock does not define time. It gives us a frame of reference for "now".

Answer 4

The progression of life that keeps everything from happening all at once.

(Personally, many aspect of time-keeping are artificial at best, like days of the week, what defines an "hour", things like that)

Answer 5

Time is something measured by a device but it varies in our mind from Slowwww when bored to non-existent when involved with a very pleasant task (as being in love). Time in the mind is know to speed up quickly in emergency situations.
The clock or measured time was invented by the Chinese to measure the exact moment a new emperor was conceived.
Time in our mind is always subjective....

Answer 6

I think I would define time as that part of space which allows movement.

Answer 7

something i never have enough of

The Oxford English Dictionary defines time as "the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future, regarded as a whole."

Answer 8

Time is the fourth dimension in space time (the other three dimensions being those of space) in Minkowski's space time manifold.

Time is not absolute between reference frames.

More commonly, time is a arbitrary unit of measurement between events

Answer 9

time (tm) KEY

NOUN:


A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.
An interval separating two points on this continuum; a duration: a long time since the last war; passed the time reading.
A number, as of years, days, or minutes, representing such an interval: ran the course in a time just under four minutes.
A similar number representing a specific point on this continuum, reckoned in hours and minutes: checked her watch and recorded the time, 6:17 a.m.
A system by which such intervals are measured or such numbers are reckoned: solar time.

An interval, especially a span of years, marked by similar events, conditions, or phenomena; an era. Often used in the plural: hard times; a time of troubles.
times The present with respect to prevailing conditions and trends: You must change with the times.
A suitable or opportune moment or season: a time for taking stock of one's life.

Periods or a period designated for a given activity: harvest time; time for bed.
Periods or a period necessary or available for a given activity: I have no time for golf.
A period at one's disposal: Do you have time for a chat?
An appointed or fated moment, especially of death or giving birth: He died before his time. Her time is near.

One of several instances: knocked three times; addressed Congress for the last time before retirement.
times Used to indicate the number of instances by which something is multiplied or divided: This tree is three times taller than that one. My library is many times smaller than hers.

One's lifetime.
One's period of greatest activity or engagement.
A person's experience during a specific period or on a certain occasion: had a good time at the party.

A period of military service.
A period of apprenticeship.
Informal A prison sentence.

The customary period of work: hired for full time.
The period spent working.
The hourly pay rate: earned double time on Sundays.
The period during which a radio or television program or commercial is broadcast: "There's television time to buy" (Brad Goldstein).
The rate of speed of a measured activity: marching in double time.
Music
The meter of a musical pattern: three-quarter time.
The rate of speed at which a piece of music is played; the tempo.
Chiefly British The hour at which a pub closes.
Sports A time-out.
ADJECTIVE:

Of, relating to, or measuring time.
Constructed so as to operate at a particular moment: a time release.
Payable on a future date or dates.
Of or relating to installment buying: time payments.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
timed , tim·ing , times
To set the time for (an event or occasion).
To adjust to keep accurate time.
To adjust so that a force is applied or an action occurs at the desired time: timed his swing so as to hit the ball squarely.
To record the speed or duration of: time a runner.
To set or maintain the tempo, speed, or duration of: time a manufacturing process.

This is something that most of us don't have enough of. I think a lot more things would be accomplished if we had more time. Think of all the things the people can accomplish with time on their side. We as humans wouldn't find the need to live so fast and try to accomplish everything in such a hurry. Therefore we might suceed a little more in the things that matter.

Answer 10

1) The period between the one tick of the secondhand of a clock.
2) Time itself can be measured or is itself part of the measuring system.