tempo
Definitions of tempo
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the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the pastexamples:cenozoicoapproximately the last 63 million yearsquaternariolast 2 million yearsoloceneapproximately the last 10,000 yearspleistocenefrom two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolutionterziariofrom 63 million to 2 million years agopliocenefrom 13 million to 2 million years ago; growth of mountains; cooling of climate; more and larger mammalsmiocenefrom 25 million to 13 million years ago; appearance of grazing mammalseocenefrom 58 million to 40 million years ago; presence of modern mammalsmesozoicofrom 230 million to 63 million years agocretaceofrom 135 million to 63 million years ago; end of the age of reptiles; appearance of modern insects and flowering plantstriasfrom 230 million to 190 million years ago; dinosaurs, marine reptiles; volcanic activitypaleozoicofrom 544 million to about 230 million years agopermianofrom 280 million to 230 million years ago; reptilescarboniferofrom 345 million to 280 million years agodevonianofrom 405 million to 345 million years ago; preponderance of fishes and appearance of amphibians and ammonitessilurianofrom 425 million to 405 million years ago; first air-breathing animalscambrianofrom 544 million to about 500 million years ago; marine invertebratestypes:presentethe period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speechpassatothe time that has elapsedcontinuuma continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct or distinguishable from adjacent partscontinuazione, prosecuzione, proseguimento, prosieguo, seguitothe property of enduring or continuing in timeanticopast times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')storiathe continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the futuregestazionethe period during which an embryo develops (about 266 days in humans)era, era geologica, etàa major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periodsera, era geologica, etàa unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into agesoggithe present time or ageierithe recent past
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a reading of a point in time as given by a clocksynonyms: oratypes:oraclock timemezzogiornothe middle of the daymezzanotte12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night
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an amount of timesynonyms: periodoexamples:paleoliticosecond part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BCmedioevothe period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissancerinascimentothe period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuriesricostruzionethe period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union; 1865-1877types:periodoan indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)arco di tempo, continuazione, durata, estensione di tempo, lasso, prosecuzione, proseguimento, prosieguo, seguito, spazio, spazio di tempothe period of time during which something continuesfestivala day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebrationgiornothe time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outsidefine settimana, week-enda time period usually extending from Friday night through Sunday; more loosely defined as any period of successive days including one and only one Sundayannothe period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sunannoa period of time containing 365 (or 366) daysannata, annoa period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activitybimestrea period of 2 monthssecoloa period of 100 yearstrimestrea fourth part of a year; three monthsmeseone of the twelve divisions of the calendar yearstagioneone of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditionsstagionea period of the year marked by special events or activities in some fieldepoca, era, età, secoloa period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or eventpreistoriathe time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written wordincubazione, periodo di incubazionethe period between infection and the appearance of symptoms of the diseasenoviziatothe period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order)mietiturathe season for gathering cropsorarioa period of time assigned for workgiornosome point or period in timeaspettativathe period of time during which you are absent from work or dutyadolescenzathe time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthoodmaturitàthe period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developedetàa late time of lifepomeriggiothe part of the day between noon and eveningsera, vesprothe latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)noviluniothe time at which the Moon appears as a narrow waxing crescentautunnothe season when the leaves fall from the treesestatethe warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinoxinvernata, inverno, vernothe coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinoxquaresimaa period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturdayperiodo storicoan era of history having some distinctive feature
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an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)synonyms: periodotypes:giornosome point or period in timeredde rationem, resa dei conti(New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly livestype of:periodoan amount of time
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a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish somethingtype of:periodoan amount of time
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the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitationsynonyms: clima, condizione atmosferica, condizione metereologica, temperietypes:disgelowarm weather following a freeze; snow and ice meltprecipitazionethe falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)aria, ventoair moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressureatmosferathe weather or climate at some placeserenoweather suitable for outdoor activitiesgragnola, grandine, raffica, sequelaprecipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currentspioggiawater falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmospherenevischiopartially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow)riscontroa current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle)anticiclone(meteorology) winds spiraling outward from a high pressure center; circling clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southernciclone(meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southerncaliginean atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substanceperturbazionethe state of the sky when it is covered by cloudstype of:fenomeno atmosfericoa physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere
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the weather in some location averaged over some long period of timesynonyms: aria, clima, condizione atmosferica, condizione metereologica, temperie
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the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
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a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of timetypes:presentea verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speakingpassatoa verb tense that expresses actions or states in the pastfuturoa verb tense that expresses actions or states in the futureperfettoa tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)type of:categoria grammaticale(grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
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