英语词汇“time-depth”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

time-depth n. (a) literary a remote period of the past (in plural; cf. depth n. 9); (b) the extent to which something reflects or shows awareness of time; (c) chiefly Anthropology, Archaeology, and Linguistics the distance in time between an (esp. cultural or linguistic) event or epoch and the present, or between two events or epochs; (more generally) the span of time occupied by a particular culture, phenomenon, etc.

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a1888 R. A. Proctor in Ess. Astron. (1900) 65 We have to throw back into yet more awful time-depths the birth and growth of those giant orbs.

1926 Amer. Anthropologist 28 657 A culture-area..is a picture which does not necessarily include time-depth.

1951 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 17 210/1 Since reconstructed proto Eskimo is still not very similar to Aleut, it follows that the time-depth of Eskimo-Aleut is considerably greater than 2000 years.

1957 P. Worsley Trumpet shall Sound 266 There is time-depth to all social action.

1989 J. P. Mallory In Search of Indo-Europeans v. 137 The archaeological evidence suggests that this should not be so at the time-depth we normally assign to Proto-Indo-European.

2006 Hesperia 75 508 The impressive thickness of the B_t horizon..indicates the considerable time depth of formation and the essential stability of the landscape over that interval.

单词	time-depth
释义	> as lemmas time-depth time-depth n. (a) literary a remote period of the past (in plural; cf. depth n. 9); (b) the extent to which something reflects or shows awareness of time; (c) chiefly Anthropology, Archaeology, and Linguistics the distance in time between an (esp. cultural or linguistic) event or epoch and the present, or between two events or epochs; (more generally) the span of time occupied by a particular culture, phenomenon, etc. ΚΠ a1888 R. A. Proctor in Ess. Astron. (1900) 65 We have to throw back into yet more awful time-depths the birth and growth of those giant orbs. 1926 Amer. Anthropologist 28 657 A culture-area..is a picture which does not necessarily include time-depth. 1951 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 17 210/1 Since reconstructed proto Eskimo is still not very similar to Aleut, it follows that the time-depth of Eskimo-Aleut is considerably greater than 2000 years. 1957 P. Worsley Trumpet shall Sound 266 There is time-depth to all social action. 1989 J. P. Mallory In Search of Indo-Europeans v. 137 The archaeological evidence suggests that this should not be so at the time-depth we normally assign to Proto-Indo-European. 2006 Hesperia 75 508 The impressive thickness of the B_t horizon..indicates the considerable time depth of formation and the essential stability of the landscape over that interval. extracted from timen.int.conj. < as lemmas
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