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What is the definition of time?

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Does the light in the refrigerator stay on when you shut the door?

If it is what is was, before it was what it is, what was it before it is what it should have been?

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Originally Posted by sanddrag

Does the light in the refrigerator stay on when you shut the door?

Yes, it goes out...

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If it is what is was, before it was what it is, what was it before it is what it should have been?

Uh..... John-V-Neun!!!!

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Originally Posted by shamuwong

What is the definition of time?

Only the time can say...

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What is the definition of time?

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   1.

         1. A nonspatial continuum in which events occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future.

         2. An interval separating two points on this continuum; a duration: a long time since the last war; passed the time reading.

         3. A number, as of years, days, or minutes, representing such an interval: ran the course in a time just under four minutes.

         4. A similar number representing a specific point on this continuum, reckoned in hours and minutes: checked her watch and recorded the time, 6:17 A.M.

         5. A system by which such intervals are measured or such numbers are reckoned: solar time.

   2.

         1. An interval, especially a span of years, marked by similar events, conditions, or phenomena; an era. Often used in the plural: hard times; a time of troubles.

         2. times The present with respect to prevailing conditions and trends: You must change with the times.

   3. A suitable or opportune moment or season: a time for taking stock of one's life.

   4.

         1. Periods or a period designated for a given activity: harvest time; time for bed.

         2. Periods or a period necessary or available for a given activity: I have no time for golf.

         3. A period at one's disposal: Do you have time for a chat?

   5. An appointed or fated moment, especially of death or giving birth: He died before his time. Her time is near.

   6.

         1. One of several instances: knocked three times; addressed Congress for the last time before retirement.

         2. times Used to indicate the number of instances by which something is multiplied or divided: This tree is three times taller than that one. My library is many times smaller than hers.

   7.

         1. One's lifetime.

         2. One's period of greatest activity or engagement.

         3. A person's experience during a specific period or on a certain occasion: had a good time at the party.

   8.

         1. A period of military service.

         2. A period of apprenticeship.

         3. Informal. A prison sentence.

   9.

         1. The customary period of work: hired for full time.

         2. The period spent working.

         3. The hourly pay rate: earned double time on Sundays.

  10. The period during which a radio or television program or commercial is broadcast: “There's television time to buy” (Brad Goldstein).

  11. The rate of speed of a measured activity: marching in double time.

  12. Music.

         1. The meter of a musical pattern: three-quarter time.

         2. The rate of speed at which a piece of music is played; the tempo.

  13. Chiefly British. The hour at which a pub closes.

  14. Sports. A time-out.





adj.



   1. Of, relating to, or measuring time.

   2. Constructed so as to operate at a particular moment: a time release.

   3. Payable on a future date or dates.

   4. Of or relating to installment buying: time payments.





tr.v. timed, tim·ing, times



   1. To set the time for (an event or occasion).

   2. To adjust to keep accurate time.

   3. To adjust so that a force is applied or an action occurs at the desired time: timed his swing so as to hit the ball squarely.

   4. To record the speed or duration of: time a runner.

   5. To set or maintain the tempo, speed, or duration of: time a manufacturing process.

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Does the light in the refrigerator stay on when you shut the door?

It goes out.

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Originally Posted by Adam Y.

Believe it or not there is an anwser to that. The most credible pshyics say that they can never use their power for their personal gain. They can only use it to help others. Also, most psyhics don't predict the future. They usually have the ability to communicate with the dead

Wow, thanks for informing me! That's pretty interesting.
--d0ri

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1. If 7-11 is open 24-hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?

2. If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan?

3. If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?

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2 can be answered - google for it (I was curious about it too). I think 3 can too - forget what my textbook says.

hmm...

What is answer to this question?

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How many kilowatt-hours of energy does it take for Karthik's surface grinder to blast away the impenetrable fortress of hairspray, gel, mousse, leave-in conditioner, shellac, and clear coat spray surrounding his actual hair?

The world may never know.

If Karthik sings in the woods, and no one is around to hear him, do the woodland creatures still scream in pain?

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If Karthik sings in the woods, and no one is around to hear him, do the woodland creatures still scream in pain?

I don't know... I had already gone when it had happened...

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My favorite:

Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?

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Why do the Flinstones celebrate Xmas if they'd lived before Christ?!

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How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?

How much wood, could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Why do they call them stands if you sit in them?

Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all"?

I used to have a list too...
I'll hunt it down tomorrow if I remember.

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Originally posted by T. Hoffman
If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?

wouldn't it be something like the sonic boom generated by planes traveling at the speed of sound?

what happens if you get scared half to death twice?

if barnum an bailey's kids wanted to run away from home, would they join corporate america?

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I borrowed from a website...crazy thoughts ..

here are some of my Favorites from the site...

Do coffins have lifetime guarantees?

If your sick for one week and on one of those days they had to cancel school because of snow, do you have to make up that day at the end of school?

If masochists like to torture themselves, wouldn't they do it best by not torturing themselves? and if so, aren't we all masochist?

Why does Donald Duck wear a towel when he comes out of the shower, when he doesn't usually wear any pants?

And.... One that we had a hour discussion on in Physics...

What defines a near death experience? What is near death, and what is the experience? And, If you are near death and don't have an experience, did you know that you were not going to die?

-benthos