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“time is a generalization of”
It is clear that the random recurrence time is a generalization of both ordinary and successive recurrence times
The concept of proper time is a generalization of the Distance between 2 points you learn in high school.
The notion of martingale in discrete time is a generalization of the sum of inde- pendent variables with zero means:
Note that the exponential function of time is a generalization of that proposed by Battes and Coelli (1992).
Time is a generalization of the status changes of all physical processes
Chronological time is a generalization of change in the universe
time is a generalization of recurrent backpropagation.
time is a generalization of the primitive relation of
earlier-and-later”