Transformers Units of Measurement
The Transformers had different units of time than we did. The list is provided below but it would be cool to see the equivalents in everyday units. It might be a tad confusing because Transformers universe had its own but I am willing to give it a shot, eventually.
Time
| Name | Continuity | Duration | Description/Reference (if any) |
| Astrosecond | .498 seconds | 1/1000th of a breem. It would be more than than a million years if done properly however, in the Generation 1 cartoon, astroseconds appeared to be much shorter than one second each. | |
| Breem | 8.3 minutes | ||
| Century | ????? | "Cybertronian century" = millions of years. | |
| Cycle | G1 UK comics | 2 hours | |
| Cycle | Beast Wars | ~1 minute | very roughly equivalent to a minute. |
| Cycle | IDW comics | 1 hour 15 min (1.25 hours) | defined by Simon Furman |
| Deca-cycle | Beast Wars | ~ 1 year | |
| Deca-cycle | IDW comics | ~ 3 weeks | defined by Simon Furman |
| Groon | ~1 hour | From "The Magnificant Six" comic in the Generation 1 UK comics | |
| Joor | ????? | From "The Magnificant Six" comic in the Generation 1 UK comics | |
| Kilk | 1.2 Earth Minutes | Defined by Simon Furman | |
| Mega-cycle | Animated | ???? | "Lost and Found" episode--season 1. Ratchet estimated that it would take 10 mega-cycles to repair the Ark with the help of Sari's key. |
| Mega-cycle | Beast-wars | ~1 hour | |
| Mega-cycle | IDW comics | 93 hours | defined by Simon Furman |
| Mega-cycle | 13 months | ||
| Milli-cycle | ???? | often mentioned since the 6th episode in Beast Wars | |
| Nano-kilk | Animated | ~1 second or ~1 minute | In "Home is Where the Spark is", this got mentioned during a conversation between Optimus Prime and Prowl. |
| Nano-kilk | Beast Wars | ~1 second | |
| Orn | ??????? | "one Cybertronian lunar day". | |
| Quartex | ????? | very first episode (MTMTE)--1984. A conversation between Wheeljack and Bumblebee. | |
| Solar Cycle | Animated | ~1 year | In "Transform and Roll Out part 3", Starscream refers to the 50-year span between the Ark/Nemesis battle and the present as 50 solar cycles. |
| Solar cycle | Beast Machines | ~1 day | "The Weak Component", Rattrap say "half a solar cycle" to leave the Predacons alone in order to gain strength--one night, from dusk to dawn. |
| Stellar cycle | Animated | ~1 year | synonymous with solar cycle in this continuity. |
| Stellar cycle | Beast Wars | ~400 days | Orbital period (a Cybertronian "year"). Cybertron's rotational period ("day") is ~20 hours? |
| Stellar cycle | IDW comics | ~7.5 months | defined by Simon Furman |
| Trimara | Beast Wars | ????? | Beast Wars: The Ascending #2 |
| Vorn | 83 years |
Source: Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki
Distance
| Name | Continuty | Equivalent | References (if any) |
| Hic | Generation 1 | ~mile or kilometer | |
| Mechanometer | Generation 1 | ?????? | |
| Megamile | Generation 1 | ????? | at the beginning of the MTMTE part I episode: Wheeljack |
| vun | Generation 1 | ~hectometer |
Source: Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki
Liquid?
| Name | Continuity | Equivalent | References (if any) |
| Astroliters | Generation 1 | ??????? | "In the Ultimate Doom part 3" episode, Prowl calculated that it would an explosion of 10 billion astroliters of energy to get Cybertron out of Earth's orbit. |
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