Meaning of centimillennium | Babel Free

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A period of time consisting of one hundred thousand years.

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“A Millennium consists of one thousand years. / A Decamillennium is ten thousand years. /[…]/ A Centimillennium embraces a period of one hundred thousand years.”

“After that the land⟳ was quiet for a long time, and the decimillennia passed and ran on into centimillennia, and the centimillennia piled up into millionennia.[…]And, as the centimillennia passed, the hills grew lower still and the valleys broader, so that the whole land⟳ was only of a rolling surface, as if it would soon be a plain.”

“To dig⟳ down through the layers of anthropology, to compare⟳ spokeshave and arrowhead, awl and drill – embedded codices – from the abandoned shelters of the earth, to hobnob with millennia and to quote centimillennia with the same sort⟳ of respect⟳ as was previously accorded to the aristocracy, is to cite the modern quality.”

“This suggests, for one thing, that if our Australopithecoid ancestry possessed a brain-volume approximating that of a chimpanzee, in the late Tertiary, an additional 2 mitotic divisions over a period of some centimillennia would really not suggest⟳ that the human capacity is the product of an ‘explosion of brains’ under a terrific ‘selective pressure’, — as appears to be a current view⟳ of the matter⟳.”

“A lot of this book dealt with long periods of time. I coined words in there. There was no unit of time longer than a millennium in ordinary usage, which doesn't do at all. So I coined "decimillennium" and "centimillennium," and I used "millennium" for a million years. I doubt⟳ if you'd find⟳ those anywhere else, but it's pretty obvious what they mean⟳. I really needed them in this book, because I was dealing in periods very much longer than a thousand years.”

“Do the millennia and the centimillennia dash between us and this dream⟳? Must the sun be extinguished and reignited a thousand times?”

“I see⟳ no reason⟳ not to consider⟳ Jackson the text of choice for the next millennium, or at least the next centimillennium.”

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