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  2. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    1.44 minutes, or 86.4 seconds. Also marketed as a ".beat" by the Swatch corporation. moment: 1/40 solar hour (90 s on average) Medieval unit of time used by astronomers to compute astronomical movements, length varies with the season. [4] Also colloquially refers to a brief period of time. centiday 0.01 d (1 % of a day) 14.4 minutes, or 864 ...

  3. Word of the year - Wikipedia

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    The word(s) of the year, sometimes capitalized as "Word(s) of the Year" and abbreviated "WOTY" (or "WotY"), refers to any of various assessments as to the most important word(s) or expression(s) in the public sphere during a specific year. The German tradition Wort des Jahres was started in 1971.

  4. Doomsday Clock - Wikipedia

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    The Clock was moved to 150 seconds (2 minutes, 30 seconds) in 2017, then forward to 2 minutes to midnight in 2018, and left unchanged in 2019. [6] It was moved forward to 100 seconds (1 minute, 40 seconds) in 2020, [ 7 ] 90 seconds (1 minute, 30 seconds) in 2023, [ 8 ] and 89 seconds (1 minute, 29 seconds) in 2025.

  5. Metric time - Wikipedia

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    10 2: hectosecond: 100: 1.67 minutes (or 1 minute 40 seconds) 10 3: kilosecond: 1 000: 16.7 minutes (or 16 minutes and 40 seconds) 10 6: megasecond: 1 000 000: 11.6 days (or 11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes and 40 seconds) 10 9: gigasecond: 1 000 000 000: 31.7 years (or 31 years, 252 days, 1 hour, 46 minutes, 40 seconds, assuming that there are 7 ...

  6. Why Americans shifted, scrapped minutes and changed time ...

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    Exactly 141 years ago at high noon, time changed forever in America. In Boston, time moved forward 16 minutes. In Baltimore 6. New Yorkers lost about 4 minutes.

  7. Template:Countdown - Wikipedia

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    if the event is held within 24 hours, the number of hours left and everything below will be shown; if the event is held within 1 hour, the number of minutes left and the number of seconds left will be shown; if the event is held within 1 minute, the number of seconds left will be shown; Duration is in seconds, so duration=3600 for a

  8. Scientists Say Walking This Much Could Add 11 Years to ... - AOL

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    Walking a certain amount of time each day could add up to 11 years to your life, new study finds. ... Still, if these less-active individuals logged an additional 111 minutes of walking each day ...

  9. Lists of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year - Wikipedia

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    The Words of the Year usually reflect events that happened during the years the lists were published. For example, the Word of the Year for 2005, 'integrity', showed that the general public had an immense interest in defining this word amid ethics scandals in the United States government, corporations, and sports. [ 1 ]