Time

time

1. the measured or measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues : DURATION

   a nonspatial continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another from past through present

   the point or period when something occurs : OCCASION

   an appointed, fixed, or customary moment or hour for something to happen, begin, or #: an opportune or suitable momentdecided it was time to retire# a historical period : AGE

   a division of geologic chronology

2. conditions at present or at some specified period —usually used in plural

the present time