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time unit - a unit for measuring time periods

quantity, measure, amount - how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify

24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours - time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; "two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day"

night - the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit; "three nights later he collapsed"

mean solar time, mean time - (astronomy) time based on the motion of the mean sun (an imaginary sun moving uniformly along the celestial equator)

ephemeris time, TDT, terrestrial dynamical time, terrestrial time, TT - (astronomy) a measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion; terrestrial time is mean solar time corrected for the irregularities of the Earth's motions

month - a time unit of approximately 30 days; "he was given a month to pay the bill"

sidereal day, day - the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day

ship's bell, bell - (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.

60 minutes, hour, hr - a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour"

30 minutes, half-hour - a half of an hour

15 minutes, quarter-hour - a quarter of an hour

min, minute - a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour; "he ran a 4 minute mile"

quarter - a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour; "it's a quarter til 4"; "a quarter after 4 o'clock"

s, sec, second - 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

attosecond - one quintillionth (10^-18) of a second; one thousandth of a femtosecond

femtosecond - one quadrillionth (10^-15) of a second; one thousandth of a picosecond

picosecond - one trillionth (10^-12) of a second; one thousandth of a nanosecond

nanosecond - one billionth (10^-9) of a second; one thousandth of a microsecond

microsecond - one millionth (10^-6) of a second; one thousandth of a millisecond

millisecond, msec - one thousandth (10^-3) of a second

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A problem with applying differential privacy to periodically provide traffic data is that a privacy budget that determines the amount of noise insertion in differential privacy is divided for each time unit. For example, if we provide traffic data from [t.sub.1] to [t.sub.20] in Table 1(b), the total privacy budget is divided by 20 and allocated to each time unit data.

An Adaptive Window Size Selection Method for Differentially Private Data Publishing over Infinite Trajectory Stream

Zewail developed a very fast laser-imaging system that has the ability to monitor the movement of molecules when they arise and when they are welded in a new time unit, in which the picture is taken in a femtosecond, part of a million billionth of a second.

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We then define [T.sub.i] - mesoid as an ordered set describing the state of each job [j.sub.i] of a task [[tau].sub.i] [T.sub.i]--mesoid consists of three types of time units: a time unit already executed or suspended by CPU idle time, called consumption, a time units for a FT invocation and a time unit still available.

Real-time scheduling for preventing information leakage with preemption overheads

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