Definitions

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  • noun science fiction A multi-dimensional treatment of time
  • noun physics A function of time that is dependent on the position of the observer

Etymologies

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time +‎ -scape

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Examples

  • Slide 15: The "timescape": Difficult to synch Reggie: Yeah, [I usually start] just before 9.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2008

  • Slide 16: The "timescape": intense Jessica: [Project managers are] in charge of the hours they put on a project.

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  • A "timescape" • Time frame • Timing • Tempo • Temporality

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  • Slide 17: The "timescape": "de-temporalized Sam Ladner: When do you find time passes quickly during the day?

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  • He had to laugh at the looks on their faces just before they vanished from his timescape.

    Massage 2010

  • One of my tensions as a fundamentalist was just how much of that wonder that culture denies particularly, the truncated timescape of YECism.

    What is an Atheist? James F. McGrath 2008

  • The timescape of the DCU, though, "from the dawn of time to the Great Disaster"--was that how the phrase went?

    Week 27: Midnight in the Garden of Forking Paths Douglas Wolk 2006

  • The timescape of the DCU, though, "from the dawn of time to the Great Disaster"--was that how the phrase went?

    Archive 2006-11-01 Douglas Wolk 2006

  • Against a great and stirring timescape in ancestral headwaters, the diversity of fishes has been a cascade of jewels, while indiscriminate hybridization has produced a besetting and assailable uniformity.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • Against a great and stirring timescape in ancestral headwaters, the diversity of fishes has been a cascade of jewels, while indiscriminate hybridization has produced a besetting and assailable uniformity.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

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