period of time


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Noun1.period of time - an amount of timeperiod of time - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
fundamental measure, fundamental quantity - one of the four quantities that are the basis of systems of measurement
test period, trial period - a period of time during which someone or something is tested
time frame - a time period during which something occurs or is expected to occur; "an agreement can be reached in a reasonably short time frame"
hours - an indefinite period of time; "they talked for hours"
downtime - a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is not operating (especially as a result of malfunctions)
uptime - a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is functioning and available for use
work time - a time period when you are required to work
time off - a time period when you are not required to work; "he requested time off to attend his grandmother's funeral"
bout - a period of illness; "a bout of fever"; "a bout of depression"
hospitalization - a period of time when you are confined to a hospital; "now they try to shorten the patient's hospitalization"
travel time - a period of time spent traveling; "workers were not paid for their travel time between home and factory"
times - a more or less definite period of time now or previously present; "it was a sign of the times"
time - 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 in his time"
elapsed time - the time that elapses while some event is occurring
duration, continuance - the period of time during which something continues
calendar week, week - a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday
midweek - the middle of a week
field day - a time of unusual pleasure and success
lifespan, lifetime, life-time, life - the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death); "the battery had a short life"; "he lived a long and happy life"
life - the period between birth and the present time; "I have known him all his life"
life - the period from the present until death; "he appointed himself emperor for life"
millennium, millenary - a span of 1000 years
bimillenary, bimillennium - a span of 2000 years
occupation - the period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied; "during the German occupation of Paris"
past - a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret); "reporters dug into the candidate's past"
shelf life - the length of time a packaged food or drug will last without deteriorating
puerperium - time period following childbirth when the mother's uterus shrinks and the other functional and anatomic changes of pregnancy are resolved; "a perinatologist cared for her during the puerperium"
lactation - the period following birth during which milk is secreted; "lactation normally continues until weaning"
time of life - a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state
calendar day, civil day - a day reckoned from midnight to midnight
festival - a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration
daylight, daytime, day - the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside; "the dawn turned night into day"; "it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime"
forenoon, morn, morning, morning time - the time period between dawn and noon; "I spent the morning running errands"
night, nighttime, dark - the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
night - the time between sunset and midnight; "he watched television every night"
night - the period spent sleeping; "I had a restless night"
night - a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
eve - the period immediately before something; "on the eve of the French Revolution"
evening - the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way; "an evening at the opera"
hebdomad, week - any period of seven consecutive days; "it rained for a week"
fortnight, two weeks - a period of fourteen consecutive days; "most major tennis tournaments last a fortnight"
weekend - a time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one Sunday
Indian summer, Saint Martin's summer - a period of unusually warm weather in the autumn
year - the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun; "a Martian year takes 687 of our days"
schooltime, school day, school - the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session; "stay after school"; "he didn't miss a single day of school"; "when the school day was done we would walk home together"
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They say and write and print that the soul and freedom do not exist, for the life of man is expressed by muscular movements and muscular movements are conditioned by the activity of the nerves; the soul and free will do not exist because at an unknown period of time we sprang from the apes.
If men descended from the apes at an unknown period of time, that is as comprehensible as that they were made from a handful of earth at a certain period of time (in the first case the unknown quantity is the time, in the second case it is the origin); and the question of how man's consciousness of freedom is to be reconciled with the law of necessity to which he is subject cannot be solved by comparative physiology and zoology, for in a frog, a rabbit, or an ape, we can observe only the muscular nervous activity, but in man we observe consciousness as well as the muscular and nervous activity.
To those who were not familiar with the motions of the moon, they demonstrated that she possesses two distinct motions, the first being that of rotation upon her axis, the second being that of revolution round the earth, accomplishing both together in an equal period of time, that is to say, in twenty-seven and one-third days.
He said, "that new systems of nature were but new fashions, which would vary in every age; and even those, who pretend to demonstrate them from mathematical principles, would flourish but a short period of time, and be out of vogue when that was determined."
"Let us observe, my friends," continued Barbicane, "that if in the actual state of the moon its long nights and long days created differences of temperature insupportable to organization, it was not so at the historical period of time. The atmosphere enveloped the disc with a fluid mantle; vapor deposited itself in the shape of clouds; this natural screen tempered the ardor of the solar rays, and retained the nocturnal radiation.
A horrid turmoil of mind and body; bursting sobs; broken, vanishing thoughts, now of indignation, now of remorse; broken elementary whiffs of consciousness, of the smell of the horse-hair on the chair bottom, of the jangling of church bells that now began to make day horrible throughout the confines of the city, of the hard floor that bruised his knees, of the taste of tears that found their way into his mouth: for a period of time, the duration of which I cannot guess, while I refuse to dwell longer on its agony, these were the whole of God's world for John Nicholson.
Again, one period of time is not said to be more truly time than another.
If unmolested, upon rising to the surface, the Sperm Whale will continue there for a period of time exactly uniform with all his other unmolested risings.
That the people and the States should, for a sufficient period of time, elect an uninterupted succession of men ready to betray both; that the traitors should, throughout this period, uniformly and systematically pursue some fixed plan for the extension of the military establishment; that the governments and the people of the States should silently and patiently behold the gathering storm, and continue to supply the materials, until it should be prepared to burst on their own heads, must appear to every one more like the incoherent dreams of a delirious jealousy, or the misjudged exaggerations of a counterfeit zeal, than like the sober apprehensions of genuine patriotism.
Already I was puzzled to compute the period of time which had elapsed since we broke through the crust of the inner world.
The youthful infatuation of nineteen would naturally blind him to every thing but her beauty and good nature; but the four succeeding years--years, which if rationally spent, give such improvement to the understanding, must have opened his eyes to her defects of education, while the same period of time, spent on her side in inferior society and more frivolous pursuits, had perhaps robbed her of that simplicity which might once have given an interesting character to her beauty.
Specifically, the letter informed the company that the exchange has determined that the shares of the company's common stock have been selling for a low price per share for a substantial period of time and, pursuant to section 1003 of the company guide, the company's continued listing is predicated on the company effecting a reverse stock split of the shares, which is scheduled to become effective on August 6, or otherwise demonstrating sustained price improvement within a reasonable period of time, which the exchange determined to be no later than September 16.