microcentury
microcentury noun: a unit of time equal to one millionth of a century or approximately one hour (52 minutes and 35.8 seconds).
Noun
microcentury (plural microcenturies)
- A unit of time equal to one millionth of a century or approximately one hour (52 minutes and 35.8 seconds).
- After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere even if we are trying to prove the Riemann hypothesis.1997, Gian-Carlo Rota, “Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught”, in Indiscrete Thoughts, Springer Science & Business Media, published 2008, →ISBN, page 197
- Translate: I was caught in such a traffic jam that I needed a microcentury for a picoparsec and that my car’s fuel consumption was two tenths of a square millimetre.2014, Christoph Schiller, Motion Mountain, edition 27.06, volume IV, page 204
Forms of microcentury
| plural | microcenturies |
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Origin of microcentury
From micro- (“1 millionth”) + century (“100 years”).
Questions about microcentury
- What does microcentury mean?
- Microcentury means a unit of time equal to one millionth of a century or approximately one hour (52 minutes and 35.8 seconds).
- What part of speech is microcentury?
- Microcentury is a noun.
- What is the plural of microcentury?
- The plural of microcentury is microcenturies.
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