unité de temps

Definitions of unité de temps
  1. noun
    a unit for measuring time periods
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    jour
    time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
    mois
    a time unit of approximately 30 days
    jour
    the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day
    coup de cloche
    (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
    heure
    a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
    minute
    a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
    seconde
    1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
    date, jour
    the specified day of the month
    lunaison
    the period between successive new moons (29.531 days)
    mois sidéral
    period between successive conjunctions with a star, 27.322 days
    mois solair
    one-twelfth of a solar or tropical year
    type of:
    dimension, mesure, quantité, taille
    how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
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