Timescale
noun
The length of time in which certain events occur or are completed.
We are looking to finish the project within a six-month timescale.
Often appears as...
- long timescale
- short timescale
noun
A representation of the time period for a series of events, often in graphical form.
The timescale on this chart depicts the progress of the project from start to finish.
Often appears as...
- project timescale
- historical timescale
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Technical
noun
The length of time in which certain events occur or are completed.
We are looking to finish the project within a six-month timescale.
Often appears as...
- long timescale
- short timescale
noun
A representation of the time period for a series of events, often in graphical form.
The timescale on this chart depicts the progress of the project from start to finish.
Often appears as...
- project timescale
- historical timescale
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Project Planning
Used to set deadlines and expectations in planning stages, indicating project duration.
The construction has a timescale of two years.
Pro Tip 2/3Specific Duration
Often paired with a specific length of time for clarity.
Our team's response to the inquiry will follow a one-week timescale.
Pro Tip 3/3Completion Indicator
Suggests when something should or will be completed.
The software update will be rolled out on a monthly timescale.
Pro Tip 1/3Project Planning
Used to set deadlines and expectations in planning stages, indicating project duration.
The construction has a timescale of two years.
Pro Tip 2/3Specific Duration
Often paired with a specific length of time for clarity.
Our team's response to the inquiry will follow a one-week timescale.
Pro Tip 3/3Completion Indicator
Suggests when something should or will be completed.
The software update will be rolled out on a monthly timescale.
Pro Tip 1/3Project Planning
Used to set deadlines and expectations in planning stages, indicating project duration.
The construction has a timescale of two years.
Pro Tip 2/3Specific Duration
Often paired with a specific length of time for clarity.
Our team's response to the inquiry will follow a one-week timescale.
Pro Tip 3/3Completion Indicator
Suggests when something should or will be completed.
The software update will be rolled out on a monthly timescale.
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How we must respond to...
you know, make a vaccine, sequence it, make therapeutics, understand how to model it -- it's kind of miraculous to me. So will we learn, now, to pay attention to scientists, because if we do, I'm sure that you feel this as well, there's an amazing analogue with climate, it's just a different timescale.
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A powerful way to...
It's very easy -- just go and do something else. You know, switch topics, switch context, you'll forget the wrong answer and that gives the right answer space to pop into the front of your mind. But on the slower timescale that interests me, being stuck is a much more serious thing.
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The sound the universe...
they're actually merging these two black holes are colliding and they will merge over a billion year timescale it's beyond our human perception to pick up a song of that duration but Lisa could see the final stages of two supermassive black holes earlier in the universe's
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What the discovery of...
bang. But they didn't release their energy in light. I mean, you know, they're black holes. All that energy was pumped into the fabric of space and time itself, making the Universe explode in gravitational waves. Let me give you a sense of the timescale at work here.
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Richard Baraniuk on...
Imagine making it free, so that anyone in the world can have access to all of this knowledge, and imagine using information technology so that you can update this content, improve it, play with it, on a timescale that's more on the order of seconds instead of years.
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What will humans look...
or you want to see two-sun sunsets, then you're talking about something that is very different, because you have to change the timescale and the body of humans in ways which may be absolutely unrecognizable. And that's a Life Four civilization.
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How long will human...
buried in the rocks a million years from now. But humans have put new things into the world that never existed on Earth before, like plutonium and plastics. In fact, the geologists known as stratigraphers who determine the geologic timescale,
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Can we cure genetic...
are using base editing to treat human genetic diseases and to improve agriculture. All of these applications of base editing have taken place in less than the past three on the historical timescale of science, the blink of an eye.
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Innovating to zero! PIPE...
and a lot of countries have built them, so anybody who's done a fast reactor is a candidate to be where the first one gets built. So, in your mind, timescale and likelihood of actually taking something like this live?
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TIL: This Volcano Has...
timescale and as that pressure increases your ups in what might be a lava flow or a small explosion very rarely are there major explosive eruptions that might cause an imminent threat however they do occur
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How we must respond to...
you know, make a vaccine, sequence it, make therapeutics, understand how to model it -- it's kind of miraculous to me. So will we learn, now, to pay attention to scientists, because if we do, I'm sure that you feel this as well, there's an amazing analogue with climate, it's just a different timescale.
Video examples
A powerful way to...
It's very easy -- just go and do something else. You know, switch topics, switch context, you'll forget the wrong answer and that gives the right answer space to pop into the front of your mind. But on the slower timescale that interests me, being stuck is a much more serious thing.
Video examples
The sound the universe...
they're actually merging these two black holes are colliding and they will merge over a billion year timescale it's beyond our human perception to pick up a song of that duration but Lisa could see the final stages of two supermassive black holes earlier in the universe's
Video examples
What the discovery of...
bang. But they didn't release their energy in light. I mean, you know, they're black holes. All that energy was pumped into the fabric of space and time itself, making the Universe explode in gravitational waves. Let me give you a sense of the timescale at work here.
Video examples
Richard Baraniuk on...
Imagine making it free, so that anyone in the world can have access to all of this knowledge, and imagine using information technology so that you can update this content, improve it, play with it, on a timescale that's more on the order of seconds instead of years.
Video examples
What will humans look...
or you want to see two-sun sunsets, then you're talking about something that is very different, because you have to change the timescale and the body of humans in ways which may be absolutely unrecognizable. And that's a Life Four civilization.
Video examples
How long will human...
buried in the rocks a million years from now. But humans have put new things into the world that never existed on Earth before, like plutonium and plastics. In fact, the geologists known as stratigraphers who determine the geologic timescale,
Video examples
Can we cure genetic...
are using base editing to treat human genetic diseases and to improve agriculture. All of these applications of base editing have taken place in less than the past three on the historical timescale of science, the blink of an eye.
Video examples
Innovating to zero! PIPE...
and a lot of countries have built them, so anybody who's done a fast reactor is a candidate to be where the first one gets built. So, in your mind, timescale and likelihood of actually taking something like this live?
Video examples
TIL: This Volcano Has...
timescale and as that pressure increases your ups in what might be a lava flow or a small explosion very rarely are there major explosive eruptions that might cause an imminent threat however they do occur
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Richard Powers
American Novelist
A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.
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Davina McCall
But the thing about grief is that it doesnt have a timescale. So I can sit here today and say to you that its got easier in some ways, and then all of a sudden itll just hit you so hard all over again, and you dont know where it comes from.
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Nicola Sturgeon
Scottish Politician
I desperately want Scotland to be an independent country. I cannot, though, sit here and tell you definitively that it will happen, and that it will happen on this timescale, because I have to respect the opinion of the people of Scotland.
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Naval Ravikant
Businessman
Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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Timothy Morton
English Philosopher
The present is haunted by the X-present. I call this manifold of present and X-present 'nowness': a shifting, haunted region like evaporating mist; a region can't be tied to a specific timescale.
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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
American Scientist
It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.
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Theresa May
British Politician
What's important is that we do this in the right timescale to get the right deal for the U.K. We shouldn't invoke Article 50 immediately.
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Douglas Alexander
British Politician
We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.
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Richard Powers
American Novelist
A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.
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Davina McCall
But the thing about grief is that it doesnt have a timescale. So I can sit here today and say to you that its got easier in some ways, and then all of a sudden itll just hit you so hard all over again, and you dont know where it comes from.
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Nicola Sturgeon
Scottish Politician
I desperately want Scotland to be an independent country. I cannot, though, sit here and tell you definitively that it will happen, and that it will happen on this timescale, because I have to respect the opinion of the people of Scotland.
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Naval Ravikant
Businessman
Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
Quote examples
Timothy Morton
English Philosopher
The present is haunted by the X-present. I call this manifold of present and X-present 'nowness': a shifting, haunted region like evaporating mist; a region can't be tied to a specific timescale.
Quote examples
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
American Scientist
It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.
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Theresa May
British Politician
What's important is that we do this in the right timescale to get the right deal for the U.K. We shouldn't invoke Article 50 immediately.
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Douglas Alexander
British Politician
We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.
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