| 单词 | time course |
| 释义 | > as lemmastime course time course n. (a) the course followed by something over time; (b) Nautical a course navigated in fog or similar conditions, in which the speed and the time spent travelling in a known direction from a known position, rather than direct observation, are used to calculate position (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > period of certain character, condition, or events dayOE dayOE summer day1563 tempestivity1569 set1633 stretch1689 period1712 run1714 tack1723 spell1827 dreamtime1844 time coursea1867 patch1897 dreaming1932 quality time1972 a1867 C. E. Morgan Electro-physiol. & Therapeutics (1868) xxxix. 612 The time-course of the contraction is also different. 1894 H. Patterson Navigator's Pocket-bk. 139 During fog..the employment of time courses becomes imperative. 1962 Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 26 295/1 Figure 8 presents a polarographic recording of the time course of oxygen utilization. 1977 J. L. Harper Population Biol. Plants 678 The way in which the time course of the risk of death is related to the time course of producing offspring. 2004 J. Playfair Living with Germs (2007) ii. 35 One of the most rapidly fatal of all infectious diseases, with a typical time-course of three days or less. < as lemmas |
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