Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A period of time seen in relation to a process or a series of phenomena.
- noun A schedule or arrangement of events or commitments.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
time scale .
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Examples
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The timescale is a few seconds to spread over the entire star.
Launchpad Day 3: More WIRO, now with open dome maryrobinette 2008
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On a more hopeful note, remember that serious work on naturalistic theories of content has been done for no more than a few decades, and on a philosophical timescale, that is quite a short time.
Teleological Theories of Mental Content Neander, Karen 2004
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The timescale is a fudge (evolution's probably not that quick), and you have to be willing to take the mental leap to accepting this type of speciation in humans (it helps to know that eusociality is possible in mammalian species--Baxter's example is naked mole rats); but once you swallow those lumps, he does get most of the details right.
Archive 2004-11-01 2004
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The timescale is a fudge (evolution's probably not that quick), and you have to be willing to take the mental leap to accepting this type of speciation in humans (it helps to know that eusociality is possible in mammalian species--Baxter's example is naked mole rats); but once you swallow those lumps, he does get most of the details right.
Coalescent 2004
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It can be said that either the universe is vastly older than what was originally predicted by the evolutionary timescale, which is probably the path most of science will follow as naturalistic evolution is supported by the majority of scientists.
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The timescale is the same for all of the charts, making it easy to correlate different metrics.
Linux Magazine 2008
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Would you agree and do you think that the results could be worth the investment that kind of timescale would require?
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I think that this shows that GISS Model II had more that a little bit of skill for the relatively short timescale which is being looked at here.
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The pace of the publishing on the Internet drives this kind of timescale, and the "traditional media" haven't yet learned they need to catch up.
Fast Company Kit Eaton 2010
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The pace of the publishing on the Internet drives this kind of timescale, and the "traditional media" haven't yet learned they need to catch up.
Fast Company Kit Eaton 2010
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