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GEOLOGICAL TIME

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• GEOLOGICAL TIME (noun)
The noun GEOLOGICAL TIME has 1 sense:

1. the time of the physical formation and development of the earth (especially prior to human history)

Familiarity information: GEOLOGICAL TIME used as a noun is very rare.

• GEOLOGICAL TIME (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The time of the physical formation and development of the earth (especially prior to human history)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

geologic time; geological time

Hypernyms ("geological time" is a kind of...):

time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "geological time"):

aeon; eon (the longest division of geological time)

geological period; period (a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed)

era; geological era (a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods)

epoch (a unit of geological time)

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
(English proverb)
"The work of the youth is a blanket for the old."
(Albanian proverb)
"Meat and mass never hindered man."
(Arabic proverb)
"Every little pot has a fitting lid."
(Dutch proverb)

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