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TIMEKEEPING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does timekeeping mean?
• TIMEKEEPING (noun)
The noun TIMEKEEPING has 1 sense:
1. the act or process of determining the time
Familiarity information: TIMEKEEPING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act or process of determining the time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("timekeeping" is a kind of...):
activity (any specific behavior)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "timekeeping"):
anachronism; misdating; mistiming (something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred)
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