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flip-flop
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flĭp-flŏp
noun
1. a disconnective unit of time
verb
1. to disconnect
time
Almost all units of time are connective and
consecutive. E.g., there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24
hours in a day, 7 days in a week, and so on. Today follows yesterday and
precedes tomorrow. The flip-flop
disconnects time, especially with regard to speech or action that was in time; thus what one did
or said yesterday has no connection with one might do or say today; what one
does or says today is disconnected from what one might do or say tomorrow. A sufficient
number of flip-flops happening in a sufficient number of places on the planet could
destroy the linear nature of time for (Western) historians though not for physicists (who
already have their own ideas). Fortunately for historians (and for all Westerners in their day-to-day lives),
flip-flops are generally confined to state or provincial, and national centers
of government.
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