| Noun | 1. | slow time scale - (simulation) the time scale used in data processing when the time-scale factor is greater than one computer simulation, simulation - (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program; "a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated" time scale - an arrangement of events used as a measure of duration; "on the geological time scale mankind has existed but for a brief moment" |