Re: Technical question: The units of a timeline

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:03:49 -0600, "Patricia C. Wrede"
<pwrede6492@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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>"Elf M. Sternberg" <elf@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> What are the individual, atomic units of a timeline called? It's not
>> "scene" as I sometimes have two (or more) scenes happening at the same
>> time. The best of I've come up with is "moment", but for some reason
>> that doesn't feel right.
>>
>> Any better suggestions?
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>I don't think there is a term, other than perhaps "days" "weeks" "years"
>etc. depending on how the particular timeline has been marked off.

How about just a given period [of time] - and you can define just
exactly how long you want the period to be...?

A. (and then yuor table becomes a periodic table... ouch... don't hit
me, I'm going away now...)
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