time

About 955.19 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.

   Time stops for nobody. the ebb and flow of time

2. noun The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.

   Time flies when you're having fun.

3. noun A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.

   Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time.

4. noun Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.

   Time slows down when you approach the speed of light.

5. noun The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.

   An essential definition of time should entail neither speed nor direction, just change.

6. noun A duration of time. A quantity of availability of duration.

   More time is needed to complete the project.

7. noun A quantity of availability of duration.

   More time is needed to complete the project.

8. noun A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.

   a long time

Similar words

fourth dimension clock meter clip sentence clock time prison term space-time momentum side

Often followed by

to of and in the for when he that

Word family

timed times timing