age interval
1age — n: the time of life at which some particular qualification, power, or capacity arises the voting age is 18 see also legal age, majority Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …
2age — [āj] n. [ME < OFr aage < ML * aetaticum < L aetas, contr. < aevitas, akin to aevum, age, eternity < IE base * aiw > AYE1] 1. the time that a person or a thing has existed since birth or beginning 2. usual or expected life span… …
3age — [n1] period of animate existence adolescence, adulthood, boyhood, childhood, dotage, elderliness, girlhood, infancy, life, lifetime, majority, maturity, middle age, milestone, old age, senility, seniority, wear and tear*, youth; concepts 816,817… …
4interval of years — index age Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
5interval — *break, gap, interruption, interim, hiatus, lacuna Analogous words: *period, epoch, age, era: *pause, respite, lull, intermission, recess: distance, remoteness, removedness (see corresponding adjectives at DISTANT): *aperture, interstice, orifice …
6Age of the universe — The age of the universe is the time elapsed between the theory of the Big Bang and the present day. Current observations suggest that this is about 13.73 billion years, with an uncertainty of about +/ 120 million years. The lowering of the… …
7age — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Old age Nouns 1. age, years, oldness; life expectancy, life span; longevity, length of years; gerontology, geriatrics; gerontocracy; ageism. 2. (maturity) adulthood, man or womanhood, maturity; legal or… …
8Age of the tide — Retard Re*tard , n. 1. Retardation; delay. [1913 Webster] 2. A mentally retarded person. [Colloq. and disparaging] [PJC] 3. a person who is stupid or inept, especially in social situations. [Colloq. and disparaging] [PJC] {Retard of the tide}, or …
9age of tide — the time interval between new or full Moon and the maximum effect of these phases upon range of tide or speed of the tidal current …
10interval scale — a scale for classifying data, in which the values have intrinsic order and all intervals have an inherent and equal distance between, e.g., age or temperature scales. Called also dimensional s. Cf. ratio s …