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GEOLOGICAL TIME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The time of the physical formation and development of the earth (especially prior to human history)
Synonyms:
geologic time; geological time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("geological time" is a kind of...):
time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "geological time"):
aeon; eon (the longest division of geological time)
geological period; period (a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed)
era; geological era (a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods)
epoch (a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages)
