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deep time, n.
Brit. |ˌdiːp ˈtʌɪm|, U.S. |ˈdip ˈtaɪm|
[‹ deep adj. + time n.]
Time in the far distant past or future; spec. time viewed on a geological or cosmological scale rather than the historical scale.
1832T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. May 406/1 By the one and by the other, who shall compute what effects have been produced, and are still, and into deep Time, producing? 1926A. MacLeish Streets in Moon 10 Wonder now what ancient bones are these That flake on sifting flake Out of deep time have shelved this shallow ledge. 1981J. McPhee Basin & Range 127 Charles Lyell..gave Hutton's theory and his sense of deep time their largest advance toward universality. 1995J. Shreeve Neandertal Enigma i. 23 There must be some kind of ancestor struggling toward us, some kind of almost-human thing out there, not in the wilderness of deep time but just beyond the reach of our species' recorded memory. 2000H. Gee Deep Time 4 What we need is an antidote to the historical approach to the history of life; a kind of ‘anti-history’ that recognises the special properties of Deep Time. |