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word time [′wərd ‚tīm]
(computer science)


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The word time, for instance--we run into puzzles about the concept of time and then we say, oh, what a terrible thing.
Drawing on evidence from the Oxford English Corpus, the word time tops the list of commonest nouns in the English language, with year (third place), day (fifth) and week (17th) not far behind.
Following that clue, he seeks a phenomenological recover of Greek thought about time, arguing that the feature of motion that the word time designates in Greek differs from what most modern scholarship has assumed, and that the very phenomenon of time has been misunderstood for centuries.
 
 
 
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