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  2. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    1.44 minutes, or 86.4 seconds. Also marketed as a ".beat" by the Swatch corporation. moment: 1/40 solar hour (90 s on average) Medieval unit of time used by astronomers to compute astronomical movements, length varies with the season. [4] Also colloquially refers to a brief period of time. centiday 0.01 d (1 % of a day) 14.4 minutes, or 864 ...

  3. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    While this is strictly 24 hours and 1 second in conventional units, a digital clock of suitable capability level will most often display the leap second as 23:59:60 and not 24:00:00 before rolling over to 00:00:00 the next day, as though the last "minute" of the day were crammed with 61 seconds and not 60, and similarly the last "hour" 3601 s ...

  4. Second - Wikipedia

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    Some common units of time in seconds are: a minute is 60 seconds; an hour is 3,600 seconds; a day is 86,400 seconds; a week is 604,800 seconds; a year (other than leap years) is 31,536,000 seconds; and a century averages 3,155,695,200 seconds; with all of the above excluding any possible leap seconds.

  5. Metric time - Wikipedia

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    A kè is about 14.4 minutes, or 14 minutes 24 seconds. In the 19th century, ... 11.6 days (or 11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes and 40 seconds) 10 9: gigasecond: 1 000 ...

  6. Hour - Wikipedia

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    In present terms, the Babylonian degree of time was thus four minutes long, the "minute" of time was thus four seconds long and the "second" 1/15 of a second. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] In medieval Europe, the Roman hours continued to be marked on sundials but the more important units of time were the canonical hours of the Orthodox and Catholic Church .

  7. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    In the Zork series of games, the Great Underground Empire has its own system of measurements, the most frequently referenced of which is the bloit. Defined as the distance the king's favorite pet can run in one hour (spoofing a popular legend about the history of the foot), the length of the bloit varies dramatically, but the one canonical conversion to real-world units puts it at ...

  8. How Long Will It Take to Ride a Century? - AOL

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    Consider starting with a metric century, which is about 62 miles, if you haven’t done a ride that long yet. Even at 100 kilometers, you’ll be riding longer than 87 percent of your fellow ...

  9. Moment (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The day is divided into 24 hours, and each hour into 4 puncta, 10 minuta, or 40 momenta. Similarly, the week is divided into seven days, and each day into 96 puncta , 240 minuta , or 960 momenta . A moment ( momentum ) is a medieval unit of time .