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arrow of time

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arrow of time [¦ar·ō əv ′tīm]
(physiology)
The uniform and unique direction associated with the apparent inevitable flow of time into the future.
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Byline: Debbie LaPlaca CHARLTON - From birth to death, we travel the arrow of time on a decidedly one-way road.
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It's not quite that simple, but the effects of gravity can be viewed as no more than an arrow of spatial movement and an arrow of time movement that are both slightly bent.
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In the story within the story another character is freeze-framed when in an ironic move the narrator of that story, mirroring the freeze-framing move in the essay collection, freeze-frames the narrative by invoking Zeno's celebrated arrow of time (his seventh paradox), where apparent motion is illusory: If an arrow in flight can be said to traverse every point in its path from bow to target .
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