Time Unit

By means of these the pupil is taught how to arrest movement suddenly or slowly, to move alternately forwards or backwards, to spring at a given signal, to lie down or stand up in the exact time of a bar of music -- in each case with a minimum of muscular effort and without for a moment losing the feeling for each time-unit of the music. ❋ Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (N/A)

In still another time-unit the smoke rolls from the chimney, making no resistance to the wind. ❋ Vachel Lindsay (1905)

The meaning of the axiom is that if the time-unit of system α is congruent to the time-unit of system β, and the time-unit of system β is congruent to the time-unit of system γ, then the time-units of α and γ are also congruent. ❋ Alfred North Whitehead (1904)

For in taking into our minds the spacious history of the universe, the world's age must play the part of time-unit upon which all our conceptions depend. ❋ John Joly (1895)

Lucretius knew nothing of our time-unit: his unit was the life of a man. ❋ John Joly (1895)