Question

define time short answer ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Time is defined as the duration in which all things happen, or a precise instant that something happens. An example of time is the Renaissance era. An example of time is breakfast at eight o'clock in the morning. An example of time is a date at noon next Saturday.

Answer 2

Short definition

Among the many short, snappy definitions of time that have been put forward are:

•what clocks measure (attr. to physicists Albert Einstein, Donald Ivey, and others)

•what prevents everything from happening at once (physicist John Wheeler and others)

•a linear continuum of instants (philosopher Adolf Grünbaum)

•a certain period during which something is done (Medical Dictionary)

•a continuum that lacks spatial dimensions (Encyclopaedia Britannica)

Although each of these definitions is fine as far as it goes, none of them feel wholly satisfactory.

Dictionary Definitions

Dictionary DefinitionsVarious dictionaries have defined time as follows:

•the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present and future regarded as a whole (Oxford Dictionary)

•the measured or measurable period during which an action, process or condition exists or continues (Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary)

•the continuous passage of existence in which events pass from a state of potentiality in the future, through the present, to a state of finality in the past (World English Dictionary)

•a continuous, measurable quantity in which events occur in a sequence proceeding from the past through the present to the future (Science Dictionary)

•the measured or measurable period during which an action, process or condition exists or continues (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

•the dimension of the physical universe that orders the sequence of events at a given place (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology)

•a non-spatial system in which events appear to happen in irreversible succession (WordSmyth Dictionary)

•the inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present events into the past (Wiktionary)

•the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole (Google)

Perhaps the best and most comprehensive overall definition is that offered by Wikipedia:

a dimension in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future, and also the measure of durations of events and the intervals between them