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Meaning of decimal time | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A system of timekeeping in which time is decimalized.

uncountable

Examples

“The French Revolution was an era of extreme political and social change. Revolutionary fervor was applied to time itself. For a brief period, the French Republic introduced a decimal time system, with each day divided into ten hours and each hour divided into one hundred minutes. It was thoroughly logical and clearly superior to the sexagesimal system.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Decimal-to-binary decimalisation decimalism decimalist decimalization decimalize

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