time unit

Questions about time unit

What does time unit mean?

time unit means "a unit for measuring time periods".

What is another word for time unit?

Close synonyms include unit of time. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is time unit a common word?

time unit is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.