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What is the unit of time?

Common time units in life are: second s, millisecond ms, minute min, hour h, day)d, month m, year y, etc.

Year, month, day, day, hour, minute and second. Then they stand for year, month, day, hour, minute and second respectively in English. So the letters of time units are abbreviations of English words.

Time unit is one of the seven basic units. Length, time, mass, quantity of matter, illumination, current and (thermodynamic) temperature are seven basic units.

Year: the time unit in which the events related to the earth's revolution around the sun in orbit occur repeatedly.

In the modern Gregorian calendar, the average year is 365 days (including 52 weeks, 1 day).

The leap year is 366 days (including 52 weeks and 2 days). English means year, often used as y.

Month: the time unit in the calendar, and a year is divided into 12 months;

In China, the lunar year is 12 months and the leap year is 13 months. The extra month is called leap month.

English means month, and m is often used.

Sun: The sun is a time unit for measuring the rotation of planets. English means day, usually D.

Hours: Hours are not the basic unit of the International System of Time Units (the basic unit of the International System of Time Units is seconds).

It is an auxiliary time unit that is coordinated with the basic unit of the international system of units.

Except in leap second, one hour is generally equal to 3600 seconds, or 60 minutes, or 1/24 days. "H" is often used in English class or math.

Minute: Time measurement unit. Minute is English, which means "tiny" and also has the smallest meaning.

Seconds: the basic unit of time in the international system of units, with the symbol S. Sometimes it is marked with the English abbreviation sec.

The prefix of the international system of units is usually used in combination with seconds for finer division, such as ms (millisecond, thousandth of a second), μs (microsecond, millionth of a second) and ns (nanosecond, billionth of a second).

4. What is the time unit?

unit of time

The main unit of time in the international system of units is the second, which is also the basic unit of the international system of units. Multiple units and fractions of seconds.

The units are thousands of seconds, milliseconds and microseconds, which are mainly used in science and technology.

In addition, there are non-international time units selected by the state, such as day (day), (hour), minute,

Common time units are century, year and week.

Days, hours, minutes and seconds

The time required for the earth to rotate once is called a day. A day is 24 hours, 1 hour is 60 minutes, and 1 minute is 60 seconds.

Modern science usually takes seconds as the basic unit of time, and stipulates that,

1 sec is the duration of 9 196 1770 radiation cycles, which corresponds to the transition between two ultra-fine energy levels of cesium-133 atom ground state.

Day system

According to records, as early as around 2000 BC, the ancient Babylonians established the system of recording the day of the week. They built seven stars.

The altar has seven layers, from top to bottom are the names of the sun, the moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn.

Every day is called "week", which is the date of every Sunday. Therefore, the 7-day cycle is called the 7-day cycle.

It goes on and on. It's called "Seven obsidians". Later, these seven consecutive days were regarded as the unit of calculation for work, study and rest days in the world, and they were called weeks.

Year, normal year and leap year

The time for the earth to revolve around the sun is called one year, because the time for the earth to revolve around the sun is about 365 days.

The hour is 48 minutes and 46 seconds. Therefore, the Gregorian calendar stipulates that there are flat years and leap years. A year with 365 days is called an average year. A year with 366 days is called leap year.

The calculation method of flat year and leap year is "leap every four years, not leap in a hundred years, and leap again in a hundred years".

According to this calculation method, a year in which the number of AD years is not divisible by 4 is a flat year, and a year in which the number of AD years is divisible by 4 is a leap year.

"Every hundred years" is a normal year when the number of AD years is not divisible by 400, and a leap year when the number of AD years is divisible by 400 is a normal year.

For example, 1992 is a leap year, 2000 is a leap year and 2 100 is a normal year.

hundred years

A hundred years is a century. From 1900 to 1999, from 2000 to 2099 is the twentieth century.

2 1 century. Every century can be divided into ten parts, and each part is ten years.

This is commonly referred to as the 1920s, 1930s and so on (usually not the 1930s).

For example, the 1980s refers to the decade from 1980 to 1989.

Noun interpretation

system of units

"Unit system", the unit system in natural science refers to a series of complete unit systems consisting of a set of selected basic units and derived units determined by definition equations and scale factors.

unit

Units, which have different positions in various fields, refer to the places where organs, groups or enterprises work;

Some also calculate mathematical or physical units, which generally include meters (m), kilometers (KM), Newton (n), Pascal (Scarborough) and other units.

However, in the traditional sense of Buddhism, unit refers to the quantitative unit of length, mass and time, and there are also special terms such as moment, moment, snap of fingers, moment and so on.

time

Time is a scale, which is one of the seven basic physical quantities in physics (length m, time s, mass kg, thermodynamic temperature K(K), current unit A(An), light intensity cd (Candeira) and substance quantity mol(mol)), and its symbol is T. Time is a scalar in the definition of physics. With time, the sequence of events can be determined according to the sequence of past-present-future (time point), and the duration of events and the length of interval between events (time period) can also be measured. Time is the fourth dimension besides the three dimensions of space.