It’s About Time

What is time, anyway?

Everybody talks about it, but does anyone know exactly what time is?  One of the more popular sources of definitions comes from Webster’s dictionary which states this about time:
           “the period between two events or during which something exists, happens, or acts; measured or measurable interval.”

The American Heritage dictionary states:
          “the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.”

The Free Dictionary has this to say about time: