Definition of timescale
: an arrangement of events used as a measure of the relative or absolute duration or antiquity of a period of history or geologic or cosmic time
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Examples of timescale in a Sentence
When considered on the 4.6 billion year timescale of the Earth, our lives can seem insignificant.
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While there are techniques for producing femtosecond snapshots of some specific chemical reactions between small molecules, there's no way to track the atoms in a protein on that sort of timescale.
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First Known Use of timescale
1890
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: a period of time whose size can be compared to other periods of time
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