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? asked in Science & MathematicsAstronomy & Space · 1 decade ago

Seconds,minutes,hours... all these are used to measure time. What actually TIME means?

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  • Troasa
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    Time is the length of an event or the length between events.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Time is an abstract physical quantity. Time Period is proper word to define or measure time. The period between occurrence of two events is known as time-period. The time - period is also measured in small and scientifically defined time-periods like second, minute, hours etc.Second is again a time - period when a second-hand moves between two divisions in the clock. This is true for all types of clocks. When we are using the word time means time-period.

  • 1 decade ago

    Seconds, minutes and hours are essentially arbitrary units. Time is just a concept we use to view physical change, whether it be the swinging of a pendulum, the decay of an atom or our bodies changing with age..

  • 1 decade ago

    It is the 5th dimension. When you travel from point A to point B in 3 dimentional space it takes time 'X' measured in hours minutes or seconds.

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  • 1 decade ago

    TIME is made up of Seconds,minutes,hours, days, years & so on; just as space is made of meters or cubic meters (whichever way you you look at it).

    Space is tangible, visible that we can relate to, but TIME is abstract, except for the change it can bring in a 'thing'. Also unlike space of linear length in which you can travel back your path, in TIME you can't.

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    4 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    time is abstract, just like the concept of math.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    it is a device to know the dawn and dusk and day and night that is all

  • 1 decade ago

    time doesn't exist. clocks exist.

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