over time
over time prepositional phrase: from a historic or evolutionary perspective.
Prepositional phrase
- From a historic or evolutionary perspective.
- "This graph shows the population of California over time."
- Occurring gradually, as the time passes.
- There are surely relationships in which romantic passion dies over time; the price of abandoning them is often less than the price of endless years spent in resuscitation efforts.2003, Stephen A. Mitchell, Can Love Last?: The Fate of Romance over Time, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 55
- It also appears that the older with less education score initially better than the young with higher education, but over time, the young appear to surpass them.2008, Can Attachment Explain Individual Differences in Cognitive Functioning Over Time?: Results from a 12-year Cohort-sequential Study, ProQuest, →ISBN, page 26
- Synonyms:
- into time
over time meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam
over time in Hindi
- with respect to the passage of time
- समय के साथ samay ke sāth
over time in Tamil
- மிகை நேரம்
over time in Malayalam
- over time; over the course of time
- കാലക്രമേണ kālakramēṇa
Synonyms of over time
Questions about over time
- What does over time mean?
- Over time means from a historic or evolutionary perspective.
- What is over time in Hindi?
- Over time in Hindi is समय के साथ (samay ke sāth). See Over time meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is over time?
- Over time is a prepositional phrase.
Words near over time in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: over time (page history and authors); over time (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); കാലക്രമേണ (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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