TIME INTERVAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does time interval mean? 

• TIME INTERVAL (noun)
  The noun TIME INTERVAL has 1 sense:

1. a definite length of time marked off by two instants

  Familiarity information: TIME INTERVAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIME INTERVAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A definite length of time marked off by two instants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

interval; time interval

Hypernyms ("time interval" is a kind of...):

amount; measure; quantity (how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "time interval"):

interim; lag; meantime; meanwhile (the time between one event, process, or period and another)

processing time (the time it takes to complete a prescribed procedure)

latency; rotational latency ((computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head)

float (the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment)

period (the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon)

lead time (the time interval between the initiation and the completion of a production process)

cycle; rhythm; round (an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs)

eternity (a seemingly endless time interval (waiting))

latency; latent period; reaction time; response time (the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it)

latent period (the time that elapses before the presence of a disease is manifested by symptoms)

access time ((computer science) the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive)

interlude (an intervening period or episode)

break; intermission; interruption; pause; suspension (a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something)

absence (the time interval during which something or somebody is away)

lunitidal interval (interval between the moon's transit of a particular meridian and the next high tide at that meridian)

slot; time slot (a time assigned on a schedule or agenda)

time constant ((electronics) the time required for the current or voltage in a circuit to rise or fall exponentially through approximately 63 per cent of its amplitude)

seek time ((computer science) the time it takes for a read/write head to move to a specific data track)

embolism; intercalation (an insertion into a calendar)

distance; space (the interval between two times)

 Context examples 

An indication or description that the end of the observation is before, during or after a reference time interval.

(End Relative to Reference Period, NCI Thesaurus)

A time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something.

(Interruption, NCI Thesaurus)

AUC is usually given for the time interval zero to infinity, and other time intervals are indicated.

(Area Under Curve, NCI Thesaurus)

An indication or description that the start of the clinical event is before, during or after a reference time interval.

(Clinical Events Start Relative to Reference Period, NCI Thesaurus)

IEDs were followed by cortical spindles at time intervals similar to that seen in the rats.

(Seizures disrupt memory network, NIH)

In these observations, from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), the haze layers over particular geographic locations on Pluto were imaged several times, at time intervals of 2 to just over 5 hours.

(Pluto’s Haze Varies in Brightness, NASA)

A selection of time intervals for frames based on special physiologic criteria.

(Frame Gate, NCI Thesaurus)

The time interval between the start of the Q wave and the end of the T wave in the cardiac cycle as corrected with a non-specified correction formula.

(Corrected QT Interval, NCI Thesaurus)

A meter is defined as the length of the path traveled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second and is equal to 1.093 61 yards.

(Meter, NCI Thesaurus)

A capsule designed to release active and/or inert ingredient(s) slowly so as to achieve a constant circulating concentration of the ingredient over a 12 hour time interval.

(Capsule 12 Hour Sustained Release Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)