timescale
noun
time·scale
ˈtīm-ˌskāl 
: an arrangement of events used as a measure of the relative or absolute duration or antiquity of a period of history or geologic or cosmic time
Examples of timescale in a Sentence
When considered on the 4.6 billion year timescale of the Earth, our lives can seem insignificant.
What is the timescale for completion of the work?
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The timescale is so different for us than for the fans.
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Jessica Wang, EW.com, 25 June 2024
But for more massive systems at much closer distances, like binary neutron star systems or binary black hole systems, inspirals and mergers can take place in much shorter periods of time: timescales that are less than ~1010 years, or younger than the age of the Universe.
—Big Think, 21 June 2024
On the timescale of decades, even much of the reef rubble will fade away, as there will be no (or few) live hard corals to build new skeletons and plenty of forces to erode the ones that remain.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 16 May 2024
Climate change also confounds customary human timescales.
—Hal Harvey, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
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Jessica Wang, EW.com, 25 June 2024
But for more massive systems at much closer distances, like binary neutron star systems or binary black hole systems, inspirals and mergers can take place in much shorter periods of time: timescales that are less than ~1010 years, or younger than the age of the Universe.
—Big Think, 21 June 2024
On the timescale of decades, even much of the reef rubble will fade away, as there will be no (or few) live hard corals to build new skeletons and plenty of forces to erode the ones that remain.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 16 May 2024
Climate change also confounds customary human timescales.
—Hal Harvey, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2020
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timescale
noun
time·scale
ˈtīm-ˌskāl
: an arrangement of events used as a measure of the duration or age of a period of history or geologic or cosmic time
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