There are many denominations of time, both small and large, and many in-between. I've always wondered what some of the units of temporal measurement aside from seconds, minutes, hours, single years and the like are, and today I've come to an answer. There are measurements of time for periods of a million years (megaannum), a billion years (gigaannum), and more. People may not think of seconds as very large portions of time, but something on the scale of teraseconds, which is one trillion seconds, would equal out to almost 32,000 years. Ages, epochs, and eons are long periods, but it turns out that they are non-specific and only refer to periods within certain ranges of lengths. Time is very interesting.
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