Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
- weeknight
- any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday
- Maundy Thursday
- the Thursday before Easter; commemorates the Last Supper
- period of time
- an amount of time
- kip
- sleep
- school day
- any day on which school is in session
- seek time
- (computer science) the time it takes for a read/write head to move to a specific data track
- clotting time
- the time it takes for a sample of blood to clot; used to diagnose some clotting disorders
- maturity
- the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed
- anomalistic year
- time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again; 365 days and 6 hr and 13 min and 53.1 sec
- M.M.
- the pace of music measured by the number of beats occurring in 60 seconds
- man hour
- a time unit used in industry for measuring work
- quick time
- a normal marching pace of 120 steps per minute
- off-season
- the season when travel is least active and rates are lowest
- deep
- the central and most intense or profound part
- Lord's Day
- first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians
- generation
- a stage of technological development or innovation
- Holy Saturday
- the Saturday before Easter; the last day of Lent
- Advent Sunday
- the first of the four Sundays during Advent
- Cretaceous period
- from 135 million to 63 million years ago; end of the age of reptiles; appearance of modern insects and flowering plants
- leap second
- a second (as measured by an atomic clock) added to or subtracted from Greenwich Mean Time in order to compensate for slowing in the Earth's rotation
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