Timescales

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• timescales — n. period of time allowed for something to be completed; arrangement relative to the time in which an event takes place (in history or in geologic or cosmic time) …   English contemporary dictionary

• Human timescales — This is a table of time periods relevant to human beings.0.1 to 0.2 s: *0.1 reaction time, blinking *0.15 seconds recommended maximum time delay for telephone service 0.2 to 1 s *0.2 to 0.67 seconds a beat of modern dance music * average reading… …   Wikipedia

• climate change — Introduction  periodic modification of Earth s climate brought about as a result of changes in the atmosphere as well as interactions between the atmosphere and various other geologic, chemical, biological, and geographic factors within the Earth …   Universalium

• global warming — an increase in the earth s average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect. [1975 80] * * * Potential increase in global average surface temperatures resulting from… …   Universalium

• asteroid — asteroidal, adj. /as teuh royd /, n. 1. Also called minor planet. Astron. any of the thousands of small bodies of from 480 miles (775 km) to less than one mile (1.6 km) in diameter that revolve about the sun in orbits lying mostly between those… …   Universalium

• Meteorology — For other uses of the root word meteor , see Meteor (disambiguation). For the work by Aristotle, see Meteorology (Aristotle). Not to be confused with Metrology. Part of the Nature series on Weather   …   Wikipedia

• Molecular clock — Part of a series on Evolutionary Biology …   Wikipedia

• Folding@home — Original author(s) Vijay Pande Developer(s) Stanford University / Pande lab Initial release 2000 10 01 …   Wikipedia

• greenhouse gas — any of the gases whose absorption of solar radiation is responsible for the greenhouse effect, including carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and the fluorocarbons. [1980 85] * * * ▪ atmospheric science Introduction  any gas that has the property of… …   Universalium

• Brownian motion — This article is about the physical phenomenon; for the stochastic process, see Wiener process. For the sports team, see Brownian Motion (Ultimate). For the mobility model, see Random walk. Brownian motion (named after the botanist Robert Brown)… …   Wikipedia

• Astronomical seeing — Schematic diagram illustrating how optical wavefronts from a distant star may be perturbed by a layer of turbulent mixing in the atmosphere. The vertical scale of the wavefronts plotted is highly exaggerated. Astronomical seeing refers to the… …   Wikipedia