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nanosecond 10
9
s time for molecules to fluoresce
shake 10
-8
s Also a casual term for a short period of time
10
nanoseconds
microsecond 10
6
s
fourth 1/3,600 second medieval unit of time
millisecond 0.001 s shortest time unit used on stopwatches
centisecond 0.01 s used on some stopwatches
third 1/60 s medieval unit of time
decisecond 0.1 s used on some stopwatches
jiffy
(electronics)
1/60s to 1/50s
Used to measure the time between alternating power cycles. Also a casual term for
a short period of time
second 1 sec SI base unit
dekasecond 10 seconds
minute 60 seconds
moment 90 seconds medieval unit of time
hectosecond 100 seconds 1 minute and 40 seconds
ke
14 minutes and 24
seconds
kilosecond 1,000 seconds 16 minutes and 40 seconds
hour 60 minutes
day 24 hours longest unit used on stopwatches and countdowns
week 7 days Also called sennight
megasecond 1,000,000 seconds About 11.6 days
fortnight 2 weeks 14 days
may not be
common
lunar month
27 Days 4 hours 48
minutes29 days 12
hours
Various definitions of lunar month exist.
month 2831 days
quarter and
season
3 months
year 12 months or 365 days
common
year
365 days 52 weeks + 1 day
tropical year
365 days 5:48:45.216
hours
[1]
average
Gregorian
year
365 days 5:49:12
hours
[2]
average
sidereal year
365 days
6:09:09.7635456 hours
leap year 366 days 52 weeks + 2 days
biennium 2 years A unit of time commonly used by legislatures
triennium 3 years
Olympiad 4 year cycle
lustrum 5 years
decade 10 years
Indiction 15 year cycle
score 20 years "four score and seven years.." = 87 years
generation 17-35 years
gigasecond
1,000,000,000
seconds
About 31.7 years
jubilee 50 years
century 100 years
millennium 1,000 years also called "kiloannum"
terasecond 1 trillion seconds About 31,700 years
age and
megaannum
1,000,000 years
epoch 10,000,000 years
petasecond 1 quadrillion seconds About 3.17 epoches
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Flowchart illustrating the major units of
time
era 100,000,000 years
galactic year
Approximately 2.3
eras
[3]
The amount of time it takes the Solar System to orbit the center of the Milky Way
Galaxy one time.
eon 500,000,000 years Also "An indefinite and very long period of time""
[4]
gigaannum 1,000,000,000 years
exasecond 1 quintillion seconds
roughly 31.7 billion years, more than twice
the age of the universe on current estimates
zettasecond 1 sextillion seconds About 31.7 trillion years
yottasecond 1 septillion seconds About 31.7 quadrillion years
cosmological
decade
varies
10 times the length of the previous
cosmological decade, with C 1 beginning
either 10 seconds or 10 years after the
Big Bang, depending on the definition.
Units of time interrelated [edit]
All of the important units of time can be interrelated. The key units are the second, defined in
terms of an atomic process; the day, an integral multiple of seconds; and the year, usually
365.25 days. Most of the other units used are multiples or divisions of these three. The
graphic also shows the three heavenly bodies whose orbital parameters relate to the units of
time.
See also [edit]
Time standard
Orders of magnitude (time)
Hindu time units
References [edit]
1. ^ McCarthy, Dennis D.; Seidelmann, P. Kenneth (2009). Time: from Earth rotation to atomic
physics . Wiley-VCH. p. 18. ISBN 3-527-40780-4., Extract of page 18
2. ^ Jones, Floyd Nolen (2005). The Chronology Of The Old Testament (15th ed.). New Leaf
Publishing Group. p. 287. ISBN 0-89051-416-X., Extract of page 287
3. ^ http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question18.html NASA- StarChild
Question of the Month for February 2000
4. ^ http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aeon?show=0&t=1372548060
Time measurement and standards
Categories: Units of time
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