Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
- sidereal year
- the time for the earth to make one complete revolution around the sun, relative to the fixed stars
- workday
- the amount of time that a worker must work for an agreed daily wage
- decennium
- a period of 10 years
- mean solar time
- (astronomy) time based on the motion of the mean sun (an imaginary sun moving uniformly along the celestial equator)
- school year
- the period of time each year when the school is open and people are studying
- 1980s
- the decade from 1980 to 1989
- public holiday
- authorized by law and limiting work or official business
- Tevet
- the fourth month of the civil year; the tenth month of the ecclesiastical year (in December and January)
- uptime
- a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is functioning and available for use
- birthday
- an anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it)
- letup
- a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished
- social season
- the season for major social events
- Y2K
- the year 2000 in the Gregorian calendar
- quarter
- (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided
- data rate
- the rate at which circuits or other devices operate when handling digital information
- msec
- one thousandth (10^-3) of a second
- first quarter
- the first fourth of the Moon's period of revolution around the Earth
- February
- the month following January and preceding March
- May
- the month following April and preceding June
- incubation
- (pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear
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