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slow time

noun

, Informal.


slow time

noun

  1. military a slow marching pace, usually 65 or 75 paces to the minute: used esp in funeral ceremonies


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Word History and Origins

Origin of slow time1

First recorded in 1895–1900

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Example Sentences

Clusters, filaments, and voids make up the large-scale structure of the Universe, foster-child of gravity and slow time.

They passed from the view of the two detectives with the locked, gliding stride of two dancers who moved to slow time.

The band of the Gloucesters were practising scales in unison to slow time.

Notwithstanding the heavy fire we thus suddenly received, the advance was made steadily, and in slow time.

I noticed that we were making very slow time, and afterwards learned that this was general on Southern roads.

As passed the slow time and the sun sank lower and lower, came the hour of supper; but likewise hunger passed them by.

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