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  2. Anachronism - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek Orpheus with a violin (invented in the 16th century) rather than a lyre.A 17th-century painting by Cesare Gennari. An anachronism (from the Greek ἀνά ana, 'against' and χρόνος khronos, 'time') is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of people, events, objects, language terms and customs from different time periods.

  3. Time - Wikipedia

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    Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. [1] [2] [3] It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events (or the intervals between them), and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the ...

  4. Setting (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    The second form exists as the cultural and historical background in which the narrative resides. Past events that have impacted the cultural background of characters or locations are significant in this way. The third form of a setting is a public or private place that has been created/maintained and/or resided in by people.

  5. Recall (memory) - Wikipedia

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    Researchers believe this to be a significant difference between genders because women's voices have better acoustics, ranging from low tones to high tones. [58] Since their voices have this range, semantic encoding is increased for the pitches that stimulate the auditory component of the brain; [ 58 ] this resonates better in the ear function.

  6. Jet lag - Wikipedia

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    If the absolute time difference between two locations is greater than 12 hours, one must subtract 24 from or add 24 to that number. For example, the time zone UTC+14 will be at the same time of day as UTC−10, though the former is one day ahead of the latter. Jet lag is linked only to the distance travelled along the east–west axis.

  7. Glossary of geography terms (A–M) - Wikipedia

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    Also amphidrome and tidal node. A geographical location where there is little or no tide, i.e. where the tidal amplitude is zero or nearly zero because the height of sea level does not change appreciably over time (meaning there is no high tide or low tide), and around which a tidal crest circulates once per tidal period (approximately every 12 hours). Tidal amplitude increases, though not ...

  8. Time perception - Wikipedia

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    In psychology and neuroscience, time perception or chronoception is the subjective experience, or sense, of time, which is measured by someone's own perception of the duration of the indefinite and unfolding of events. [1] [2] [3] The perceived time interval between two successive events is referred to as perceived duration.

  9. Time in physics - Wikipedia

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    is the time between two events as measured in the moving reference frame in which they occur at the same place (e.g. two ticks on a moving clock); it is called the proper time between the two events; t is the time between these same two events, but as measured in the stationary reference frame;