unit of time

1. 1.

   a unit for measuring time periods

   Synonymstime unit

   Broadermeasure

   Narrowerdaynightmean timeterrestrial timemonthsidereal daybellhourhalf-hourquarter-hour

Questions about unit of time

What does unit of time mean?

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

What is another word for unit of time?

Close synonyms include time unit. 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 unit of time a common word?

unit of time is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.