process of time

  • 41Time and the Conways — is a British play written by J. B. Priestley in 1937 illustrating J. W. Dunne s Theory Of Time through the experience of a moneyed Yorkshire family, the Conways, over a period of roughly twenty years from 1919 to 1937. Widely regarded as one of… …

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  • 42time-lapse — [tīm′laps΄] adj. designating or of a technique of photographing a slow process, as the growth of a plant, on film by exposing single frames at widely spaced intervals: the developed film is projected at regular speed to show the entire process… …

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  • 43Time binding — can refer to * human progress as seen from the perspective of general semantics, an educational discipline created by Alfred Korzybski in the 1930s In Korzybski s framework time binding is the third level in a progression of bindings. Energy… …

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  • 44time-consuming — UK US /ˈtaɪmkənˌsjuːmɪŋ/ adjective ► taking a lot of time to do or complete: »Commuting by car nowadays is much more time consuming than it used to be. »Employment tribunals are time consuming and expensive. »a time consuming process/task/job …

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  • 45process server — [prä′ses΄] n. Law a policeman, sheriff, or deputy who delivers an official order, or process, commanding the person receiving it to be in court at a certain time and place …

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  • 46Time geography — or time space geography traces its roots back to the Swedish geographer Torsten Hägerstrand who stressed the temporal factor in spatial human activities. The time space path , devised by Hägerstrand, shows the movement of an individual in the… …

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  • 47time-tested — UK US adjective ► a time tested method or process has existed for a long time and is believed to work well: »a time tested strategy/technique/formula …

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  • 48time-consuming — time con.suming adj taking a long time to do ▪ a complex and time consuming process …

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  • 49time-lapse — adj [only before noun] time lapse photography involves taking many pictures of something over a period of time and then showing them together, so that a very slow process seems to happen much faster …

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  • 50time-lapse — time ,lapse adjective time lapse PHOTOGRAPHY uses a series of photographs taken over a period of time to make a slow process seem to happen much faster …

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