Time Vocabulary- Ancient, Scientific and Astronautical

Time Vocabulary- Ancient, Scientific and Astronautical Units- Hours, Days and years.

  • 1 minute-60 seconds
  • 1 hour-60 minutes
  • 1 day-24 hours
  • 1 Week-7 days
  • 1 fortnight-14 days
  • 1 months-30/31 days
  • 12 months-1 year
  • 1 year- 365 days
  • 1 leap year-366 days
  • 10 years-Decade
  • 25 years-Silver jubilee
  • 40 years-Ruby jubilee
  • 50 years-Golden jubilee
  • 60 years-Diamond jubilee
  • 75 years-Platinum jubilee
  • 100 years-century
  • 200 years-Bicentennial
  • 300 years-Tercentennial
  • 1000 years-Millennium

Partition of Seconds

  • Milisecond-1/1000th of a second
  • Microsecond-1/1000000th of a second
  • Nanosecond-1/1000000000th of a second
  • Picosecond-1/1000000000000th of a second
  • Femtosecond-1/1000000000000000th of a second

Ancient Times – Lift Span of four Yugas

  • Satya Yuga – 17.28 lakh years.
  • Tretaya Yuga – 12.96 lakh years.
  • Dwapara Yuga – 8.64 lakh years.
  • Kali Yuga – 4.32 lakh years.

Astronautical Units

  • Light-year-Distance a beam of light travels in a single Earth year = 6 trillion miles (9.7 trillion kilometers) approximately.
  • Astronomical unit Shortly described as AU, or au. It is a unit of length effectively equal to the average or mean, distance between Earth and the Sun which is 149,597,870.7 km (92,955,807.3 miles).

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