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What is a word that means “a span of six months”?
Is there a word that means "a span of six months"? That is, I want to connote a stretch of time that lasts half a year, not an event that happens every six months.
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What do you call “one hundredth of a second”?
As in:
He broke the world record of 14.05
I tried searching Wikipedia and ended up with centisecond. It sounds so scientific. What is it called in colloquial English?
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How do you refer to grouping numbers in lots of 60? [closed]
We have the term "metric" for things measured in decimal or powers of 1000:
millimeter
meter
kilometer
And the term "hexadecimal" for things measured in base 16.
What term describes grouping ...
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Terms for “half a decade”
Is "lustrum" (pl. lustra) an understandable (say, at least in academic publications) or valid/common term for a five year span, e.g. to use in a table summarizing data where space can be very ...
