English words for 'plural of geologic time scale'
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- Initialism of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome.
- Initialism of General Theological Seminary.
- Initialism of Great Trigonometric Survey.
- (professional wrestling) Initialism of Go 2 Sleep.
- Initialism of Greenwich Time Signal.
- Initialism of green tobacco sickness.
- Initialism of Global Telecommunications System, a worldwide network for the transmission of meteorological data from weather stations, satellites and numerical weather prediction centres.
- A large unit of time, used to measure gradual geological change.
- (physics) A hypothetical electromagnetic or gravitational wave held together in a confined region by the gravitational attraction of its own field energy.
- (psychology) Any of a group of basic geometric forms capable of being recognised as a component of a real object.
- the longest division of geological time
- an immeasurably long period of time
- (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe
- (Gnosticism) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
- Commonwealth standard spelling of eon.
- (Cosmology) Each universe in a series of universes, according to conformal cyclic cosmology.
- the longest division of geological time
- (geology) The longest geochronologic unit, being a period of hundreds of millions of years; subdivided into eras.
- (astronomy, geology) A period of one billion (short scale, i.e. 1,000,000,000) years.
- an immeasurably long period of time
- (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe
- (US, informal, hyperbolic) A long period of time.
- Eternity, the duration of the universe.
- An immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time.
- (Gnosticism, usually spelled aeon or æon) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
- (computing, transitive) To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
- Alternative spelling of lour.
- (transitive) To reduce the height of
- (intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.
- (transitive) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
- (transitive) To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
- (transitive) To pull down
- (transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
- (transitive) To depress as to direction
- (intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
- (reflexive) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
- (transitive) To bring down; to humble
- (transitive) To make less elevated
- make lower or quieter
- move something or somebody to a lower position
- cause to drop or sink
- set lower
- look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval
- (geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
- (cooking) An unpaid internship in a restaurant where a cook or chef is exposed to new culinary techniques.
- (by extension) One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.
- A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
- (theater) A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
- (electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
- The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
- A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
- A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers; the service that such coaches provide; a company that operates such service.
- A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
- The notional space within which stereo sounds are positioned, determining where they will appear to come from when played back.
- (metonymic, uncountable, with "the") The profession of an actor.
- (Canada, Quebec) An internship.
- A phase.
- (video games) A level; one of the areas making up the game.
- A floor or storey of a house.
- any distinct time period in a sequence of events
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- a section or portion of a journey or course
- a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns
- the theater as a profession (usually ‘the stage’)
- a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
- any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something
- a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience
- (transitive, medicine) To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to
- To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
- (intransitive, cooking) To work as an unpaid intern in a restaurant.
- (transitive) To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
- (transitive) To place in position to prepare for use.
- (astronautics) To jettison a spent stage of a multistage rocket or other launch vehicle and light the engine(s) of the stage above it.
- (transitive) To orchestrate; to carry out.
- (intransitive, Canada, US) To work an internship, usually as a chef or waiter.
- plan, organize, and carry out (an event)
- perform (a play), especially on a stage
- (geology, of strata or geological time periods) Younger, more recent.
- Situated on higher ground, further inland, or more northerly.
- (education) Of or pertaining to a secondary school.
- At a higher level, rank or position.
- the topmost one of two; upper
- superior in rank or accomplishment
- higher in place or position
- (footwear) The Y-shaped strap on flip-flops.
- The upper portion of something.
- A stimulant, such as amphetamine, that increases energy and decreases appetite.
- (Taoism) A spiritual passageway through which consciousness can reach a higher dimension.
- Anything that cheers one up.
- (shoemaking) The piece of material that forms the top part of a shoe or boot above the sole.
- A tooth in the upper jaw.
- An upper berth or bunk.
- A senior student.
- A denture or retainer for the teeth in the upper jaw.
- That which is higher, contrasted with the lower.
- Someone with higher social standing
- the higher of two berths
- a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression
- piece of leather or synthetic material that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole that encases the foot
- a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods
- (geology) A geochronologic unit of tens to hundreds of millions of years; a subdivision of an eon, and subdivided into periods.
- a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- (informal) An indefinite period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular interest.
- A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
- (geology) A geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years; a subdivision of an era, and subdivided into epochs.
- a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
- Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
- The set of symptoms associated with menstruation, even if not accompanied by menstruation; an episode of these symptoms.
- The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.
- (now chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
- (euphemistic) Female menstruation; an episode of this.
- (sports, chiefly ice hockey) Each of the intervals, typically three, of which a game is divided.
- A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
- (figurative) A decisive end to something; a stop.
- (mathematics) The length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length.
- (sports, chiefly ice hockey) One or more additional intervals to decide a tied game, an overtime period.
- (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole.
- A length of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
- (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
- A length of time.
- (genetics) A Drosophila gene, the gene product of which is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
- (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
- an amount of time
- the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
- the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
- the end or completion of something
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
- (of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time
- occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase
- concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents
- Occurring at a specific point in time.
- (linguistics) Relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history.
- a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages
- a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded
- A particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable.
- (chronology, astronomy, computing) A specific instant in time, chosen as the point of reference or zero value of a system that involves identifying instants of time.
- A notable event which marks the beginning of such a period.
- (machine learning) One complete presentation of the training data set to an iterative machine learning algorithm.
- (geology) A geochronologic unit of hundreds of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of a period, and subdivided into ages (or sometimes subepochs).
- (geology) Something from the Tertiary Period (the former term for the geologic period from 65 million to 2.58 million years ago).
- (ornithology) A tertiary feather; a tertial.
- A tertiary colour.
- (Roman Catholicism) A member of a Roman Catholic third order; a layperson who participates in activities similar to those engaged in by men and women who take religious vows (respectively the first and second orders), and who may wear some elements of an order's habit such as a scapular.
- Any item considered to be of third order.
- (military) A large stage in some extremely powerful thermonuclear weapons (resembling a greatly-enlarged secondary) which is compressed by the explosion of the secondary until ignition of nuclear fusion takes place, in much the same manner as the secondary is imploded by the primary, and which can allow for the attainment of yields of many tens or even hundreds of megatons, and likely even greater; not used in modern weapons due to a greater focus on the accurate use of sub-megaton weapons, the tremendous size of weapons incorporating a tertiary, and the lack of targets whose destruction would necessitate the use of a three-stage weapon.
- (chemistry) Possessing some quality in the third degree; especially having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals.
- (ornithology) Of quills: growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial.
- Of third rank or order; subsequent.
- coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position
- (geology) A gap in geological strata.
- An temporary break from work, especially one which is unexpected.
- (anatomy) An opening in an organ.
- A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
- An interruption, break, pause or absence.
- (prosody, phonetics, sometimes uncountable) A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant.
- a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript)
- a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- (US) Initialism of geological survey.
- (netball) Initialism of goal shooter.
- (skiing, snowboarding) Initialism of giant slalom.
- (politics) Initialism of global studies.
- Initialism of General Secretary.
- (sexuality) Initialism of golden shower (“the act of a person urinating on another”).
- (slang) Initialism of glue stick.
- (Philippines, education) Initialism of grade school.
- Initialism of Gitelman syndrome.
- (aviation) Initialism of glide slope.
- (geology) A geological matrix.
- (archaeology, paleontology) The sediment surrounding and including the artifacts, features, and other materials at a site.
- The cavity or mold in which anything is formed.
- (biology) Part of the mitochondrion.
- (analytical chemistry) The environment from which a given sample is taken.
- The metaphorical place where something is made, formed, or given birth.
- (electronics) A grid-like arrangement of electronic components, especially one intended for information coding, decoding or storage.
- (slang, figurative, science fiction) Alternative letter-case form of Matrix; a controlled environment or situation in which people behave in ways that conform to pre-determined roles.
- (computing) A two-dimensional array.
- A table of data.
- (linguistics) Matrix clause is a clause that has another (subordinate) clause embedded within it.
- (dyeing) The five simple colours (black, white, blue, red, and yellow) from which all the others are formed.
- (material science) A binding agent of composite materials, e.g. resin in fibreglass.
- (mathematics) A rectangular arrangement of numbers or terms having various uses such as transforming coordinates in geometry, solving systems of linear equations in linear algebra and representing graphs in graph theory.
- (biology) An extracellular matrix, the material or tissue between the cells of animals or plants.
- (biology) The material or tissue in which more specialized structures are embedded.
- (biology) The medium in which bacteria are cultured.
- (printing, historical) In printmaking, the plate or block used, with ink, to hold the image that makes up the print.
- (printing, historical) In hot metal typesetting, a mold for casting a letter.
- the body substance in which tissue cells are embedded
- the formative tissue at the base of a nail
- an enclosure within which something originates or develops
- (mathematics) a rectangular array of quantities or expressions set out by rows and columns; treated as a single element and manipulated according to rules
- (geology) a mass of fine-grained rock in which fossils, crystals, or gems are embedded
- mold used in the production of phonograph records, type, or other relief surface
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- Initialism of Gilles de la Tourette syndrome.
- Initialism of General Theological Seminary.
- Initialism of Great Trigonometric Survey.
- (professional wrestling) Initialism of Go 2 Sleep.
- Initialism of Greenwich Time Signal.
- Initialism of green tobacco sickness.
- Initialism of Global Telecommunications System, a worldwide network for the transmission of meteorological data from weather stations, satellites and numerical weather prediction centres.
- A large unit of time, used to measure gradual geological change.
- (physics) A hypothetical electromagnetic or gravitational wave held together in a confined region by the gravitational attraction of its own field energy.
- (psychology) Any of a group of basic geometric forms capable of being recognised as a component of a real object.
- the longest division of geological time
- an immeasurably long period of time
- (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe
- (Gnosticism) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
- Commonwealth standard spelling of eon.
- (Cosmology) Each universe in a series of universes, according to conformal cyclic cosmology.
- the longest division of geological time
- (geology) The longest geochronologic unit, being a period of hundreds of millions of years; subdivided into eras.
- (astronomy, geology) A period of one billion (short scale, i.e. 1,000,000,000) years.
- an immeasurably long period of time
- (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe
- (US, informal, hyperbolic) A long period of time.
- Eternity, the duration of the universe.
- An immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time.
- (Gnosticism, usually spelled aeon or æon) A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
- (geology) The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale.
- (cooking) An unpaid internship in a restaurant where a cook or chef is exposed to new culinary techniques.
- (by extension) One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.
- A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene.
- (theater) A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
- (electronics) The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc.
- The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing.
- A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging.
- A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers; the service that such coaches provide; a company that operates such service.
- A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
- The notional space within which stereo sounds are positioned, determining where they will appear to come from when played back.
- (metonymic, uncountable, with "the") The profession of an actor.
- (Canada, Quebec) An internship.
- A phase.
- (video games) A level; one of the areas making up the game.
- A floor or storey of a house.
- any distinct time period in a sequence of events
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
- a section or portion of a journey or course
- a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns
- the theater as a profession (usually ‘the stage’)
- a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
- any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something
- a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience
- (transitive, medicine) To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to
- To demonstrate in a deceptive manner.
- (intransitive, cooking) To work as an unpaid intern in a restaurant.
- (transitive) To produce on a stage, to perform a play.
- (transitive) To place in position to prepare for use.
- (astronautics) To jettison a spent stage of a multistage rocket or other launch vehicle and light the engine(s) of the stage above it.
- (transitive) To orchestrate; to carry out.
- (intransitive, Canada, US) To work an internship, usually as a chef or waiter.
- plan, organize, and carry out (an event)
- perform (a play), especially on a stage
- a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods
- (geology) A geochronologic unit of tens to hundreds of millions of years; a subdivision of an eon, and subdivided into periods.
- a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- (informal) An indefinite period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular interest.
- A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
- (geology) A geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years; a subdivision of an era, and subdivided into epochs.
- a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
- Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
- The set of symptoms associated with menstruation, even if not accompanied by menstruation; an episode of these symptoms.
- The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.
- (now chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
- (euphemistic) Female menstruation; an episode of this.
- (sports, chiefly ice hockey) Each of the intervals, typically three, of which a game is divided.
- A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
- (figurative) A decisive end to something; a stop.
- (mathematics) The length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length.
- (sports, chiefly ice hockey) One or more additional intervals to decide a tied game, an overtime period.
- (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole.
- A length of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
- (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
- A length of time.
- (genetics) A Drosophila gene, the gene product of which is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
- (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
- an amount of time
- the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
- the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
- the end or completion of something
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
- a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages
- a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded
- A particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable.
- (chronology, astronomy, computing) A specific instant in time, chosen as the point of reference or zero value of a system that involves identifying instants of time.
- A notable event which marks the beginning of such a period.
- (machine learning) One complete presentation of the training data set to an iterative machine learning algorithm.
- (geology) A geochronologic unit of hundreds of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of a period, and subdivided into ages (or sometimes subepochs).
- (geology) Something from the Tertiary Period (the former term for the geologic period from 65 million to 2.58 million years ago).
- (ornithology) A tertiary feather; a tertial.
- A tertiary colour.
- (Roman Catholicism) A member of a Roman Catholic third order; a layperson who participates in activities similar to those engaged in by men and women who take religious vows (respectively the first and second orders), and who may wear some elements of an order's habit such as a scapular.
- Any item considered to be of third order.
- (military) A large stage in some extremely powerful thermonuclear weapons (resembling a greatly-enlarged secondary) which is compressed by the explosion of the secondary until ignition of nuclear fusion takes place, in much the same manner as the secondary is imploded by the primary, and which can allow for the attainment of yields of many tens or even hundreds of megatons, and likely even greater; not used in modern weapons due to a greater focus on the accurate use of sub-megaton weapons, the tremendous size of weapons incorporating a tertiary, and the lack of targets whose destruction would necessitate the use of a three-stage weapon.
- (chemistry) Possessing some quality in the third degree; especially having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals.
- (ornithology) Of quills: growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial.
- Of third rank or order; subsequent.
- coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position
- (geology) A gap in geological strata.
- An temporary break from work, especially one which is unexpected.
- (anatomy) An opening in an organ.
- A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
- An interruption, break, pause or absence.
- (prosody, phonetics, sometimes uncountable) A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant.
- a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript)
- a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- (US) Initialism of geological survey.
- (netball) Initialism of goal shooter.
- (skiing, snowboarding) Initialism of giant slalom.
- (politics) Initialism of global studies.
- Initialism of General Secretary.
- (sexuality) Initialism of golden shower (“the act of a person urinating on another”).
- (slang) Initialism of glue stick.
- (Philippines, education) Initialism of grade school.
- Initialism of Gitelman syndrome.
- (aviation) Initialism of glide slope.
- (geology) A geological matrix.
- (archaeology, paleontology) The sediment surrounding and including the artifacts, features, and other materials at a site.
- The cavity or mold in which anything is formed.
- (biology) Part of the mitochondrion.
- (analytical chemistry) The environment from which a given sample is taken.
- The metaphorical place where something is made, formed, or given birth.
- (electronics) A grid-like arrangement of electronic components, especially one intended for information coding, decoding or storage.
- (slang, figurative, science fiction) Alternative letter-case form of Matrix; a controlled environment or situation in which people behave in ways that conform to pre-determined roles.
- (computing) A two-dimensional array.
- A table of data.
- (linguistics) Matrix clause is a clause that has another (subordinate) clause embedded within it.
- (dyeing) The five simple colours (black, white, blue, red, and yellow) from which all the others are formed.
- (material science) A binding agent of composite materials, e.g. resin in fibreglass.
- (mathematics) A rectangular arrangement of numbers or terms having various uses such as transforming coordinates in geometry, solving systems of linear equations in linear algebra and representing graphs in graph theory.
- (biology) An extracellular matrix, the material or tissue between the cells of animals or plants.
- (biology) The material or tissue in which more specialized structures are embedded.
- (biology) The medium in which bacteria are cultured.
- (printing, historical) In printmaking, the plate or block used, with ink, to hold the image that makes up the print.
- (printing, historical) In hot metal typesetting, a mold for casting a letter.
- the body substance in which tissue cells are embedded
- the formative tissue at the base of a nail
- an enclosure within which something originates or develops
- (mathematics) a rectangular array of quantities or expressions set out by rows and columns; treated as a single element and manipulated according to rules
- (geology) a mass of fine-grained rock in which fossils, crystals, or gems are embedded
- mold used in the production of phonograph records, type, or other relief surface
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- (computing, transitive) To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.
- Alternative spelling of lour.
- (transitive) To reduce the height of
- (intransitive) To decrease in value, amount, etc.
- (transitive) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of
- (transitive) To reduce (something) in value, amount, etc.
- (transitive) To pull down
- (transitive) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down
- (transitive) To depress as to direction
- (intransitive) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease
- (reflexive) To humble oneself; to do something one considers to be beneath one's dignity.
- (transitive) To bring down; to humble
- (transitive) To make less elevated
- make lower or quieter
- move something or somebody to a lower position
- cause to drop or sink
- set lower
- look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval
- (geology, of strata or geological time periods) Younger, more recent.
- Situated on higher ground, further inland, or more northerly.
- (education) Of or pertaining to a secondary school.
- At a higher level, rank or position.
- the topmost one of two; upper
- superior in rank or accomplishment
- higher in place or position
- (footwear) The Y-shaped strap on flip-flops.
- The upper portion of something.
- A stimulant, such as amphetamine, that increases energy and decreases appetite.
- (Taoism) A spiritual passageway through which consciousness can reach a higher dimension.
- Anything that cheers one up.
- (shoemaking) The piece of material that forms the top part of a shoe or boot above the sole.
- A tooth in the upper jaw.
- An upper berth or bunk.
- A senior student.
- A denture or retainer for the teeth in the upper jaw.
- That which is higher, contrasted with the lower.
- Someone with higher social standing
- the higher of two berths
- a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression
- piece of leather or synthetic material that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole that encases the foot
- (of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time
- occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase
- concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents
- Occurring at a specific point in time.
- (linguistics) Relating to the study of a language at only one point in its history.