Decamillennium

Quick meaning: Decamillennium is a noun meaning (rare) A period of time consisting of ten thousand years.

Meaning

(rare) A period of time consisting of ten thousand years.

Example Sentences

A Millennium consists of one thousand years. / A Decamillennium is ten thousand years. / […] / A Centimillennium embraces a period of one hundred thousand years.

That this bare room, in spite of its barrenness, was a Catholic church, was attested by the high altar which had preserved its form unchanged through the decamillennia and was crowned by a tall, gold, gleaming monstrance.

It is this present time, the twelve thousand or so years since the ice age and the twelve thousand or so years yet to come, that is our little territory. We will be judged or judge ourselves by how we have lived with each other and the world during these two decamillennia.

A fundamental question in any analysis of volcanic activity is the absence or presence of memory effects, and if present, their kind and extent. The time scales involved are also basic: some volcanic phenomena take place within hours or even shorter intervals, others need millennia or even decamillennia to produce observable effects.

Word Forms

• decamillennia
• decamillenniums
• decimillennium

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include decimillennium, centimillennium, millennium, quincentennium, millenary, centennium.

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