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  2. Launch window - Wikipedia

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    A mission could have a period of 365 days in a year, a few weeks each month, [6] a few weeks every 26 months (e.g. Mars launch periods), [7] or a short period time that won't be repeated. A launch window indicates the time frame on a given day in the launch period that the rocket can launch to reach its intended orbit.

  3. Jiffy (time) - Wikipedia

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    The term jiffy is sometimes used in computer animation as a method of defining playback rate, with the delay interval between individual frames specified in 1/100 of a second (10 ms) jiffies, particularly in Autodesk Animator.FLI sequences (one global frame frequency setting) and animated Compuserve.GIF images (each frame having an individually ...

  4. Coordinate time - Wikipedia

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    A fuller explanation of the concept of coordinate time arises from its relations with proper time and with clock synchronization. Synchronization, along with the related concept of simultaneity, has to receive careful definition in the framework of general relativity theory, because many of the assumptions inherent in classical mechanics and classical accounts of space and time had to be removed.

  5. Time - Wikipedia

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    Time is the continuous progression of our changing existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. [1] [2] [3] It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events (or the intervals between them), and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or ...

  6. Time (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Time (metadata), a representation term time (Unix) , a shell command on Unix and Unix-like operating systems TIME (command) , a shell command on DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows operating systems

  7. Reasonable time - Wikipedia

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    Reasonable time is that amount of time which is fairly necessary, conveniently, to do whatever is required to be done, as soon as circumstances permit. [1] As a U.S. legal term, the phrase has been a topic of controversy for many years. It is generally used in reference to performing an action or remitting payment, but this is a very vague term ...

  8. Template:When - Wikipedia

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    Use after a statement of a time period in an article that is so vague or ambiguous you do not understand which period is being referred to. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Month and year date The month and year you added this template to the article, use the full month name and four digit year, e ...

  9. Spacetime - Wikipedia

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    Frame S′ moves in the x-direction of frame S with a constant velocity v as measured in frame S. The origins of frames S and S′ are coincident when time t = 0 for frame S and t′ = 0 for frame S′. [6]: 107 Fig. 2-3a redraws Fig. 2-2 in a different orientation.