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[ noun ] an amount of time
Synonyms Examples "a time period of 30 years" "hastened the period of time of his recovery" "Picasso's blue period" Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)In all his miscalculations , Stravinsky made the fatal historical blunder of presuming that he could transform other composers ' inspirations - representing many peoples , time_periods and styles - into his own music by warping the harmony , melody , or form , to verify his own experiments . (Public Papers of the Presidents of the U.S. D. D....)Considering the high cost of the F-108 system - over $ 4 billion for the force that had been planned - and the time_period in which it would become operational , it was decided to stop further work on the project . (Allan J. Braff and Roger F. Miller, "Wage-Price...)In any given time_period , the aggregate demand for the industry 's product is determined by two things : the price charged by the industry , and the level of GNP . Productivity is something of an amorphous concept and the amount of productivity increase in a given time_period is not even well_known to the industry , much_less to the union or to the public . Related terms measure fundamental_measure year week time season time phase period night century day morning calendar_month season school year decade life life week long_time era weekend fortnight season point term generation year duration life past time_off millennium quarter-century hours incubation_period time_of_life festival youth day watch mid-June running_time flower Indian_summer drought reign half_life night enlistment night prohibition novitiate hour hospitalization silly_season trimester real_time silver_age Bronze_Age occupation lactation middle_paleolithic run bronze_age Golden_Age bimillennium Iron_Age Eolithic_Age Stone_Age iron_age Mesolithic_Age Paleolithic_Age great_year Neolithic_Age semester shelf_life elapsed_time overtime regulation_time dog_days Olympiad bimester midwinter lustrum calendar_day long_run prehistory dawn quarter half-century field_day work_time lease sleep evening tide multistage mid-January phase_of_the_moon peacetime wartime mid-March indiction honeymoon mid-May mid-April mid-February night rainy_day mid-July clotting_time time_frame mid-September mid-August evening puerperium uptime real_time depression mid-November usance study_hall test_period question_time time_limit mid-December lower_paleolithic mid-October upper_paleolithic eve air_alert travel_time window downtime |
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