| Meaning | The time when something happens. |
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| Attributes | early | At or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time |
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| future | yet to be or coming |
| late | Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time |
| middle | Between an earlier and a later period of time |
| past | Earlier than the present time |
| preceding | Existing or coming before |
| present | temporal sense |
| succeeding | coming after or following |
| Narrower | approach, approaching, coming | The temporal property of becoming nearer in time |
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| earliness | Quality of coming early or earlier in time |
| futurity | The quality of being in or of the future |
| lateness | Quality of coming late or later in time |
| pastness | The quality of being past |
| presentness, nowness | The quality of being the present |
| punctuality, promptness | The quality or habit of adhering to an appointed time |
| seasonableness, timeliness | At the right time |
| simultaneity, simultaneousness | happening or existing or done at the same time |
| spark advance, lead | The timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine |
| tardiness | The quality or habit of not adhering to a correct or usual / usual or expected time |
| unseasonableness, untimeliness | At an inappropriate time |
| Broader | temporal arrangement, temporal order | arrangement of events in time |
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| Spanish | medida del tiempo |
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| Verbs | time | assign a time for an activity or event |
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