DEAD TIME

Aerospace

Computing

Labor

Mining

Physics

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Dead Time Tales (1998)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "DEAD TIME": transponder dead time. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

престой (abidance, continuance, downtime, idle time, lay over, outage, residence, stay, stopover). (various references)

Danish

dødtid (delay, insensitive time, paralysis time), ventetid (access motion time, access time, break in the work, delay time, down time, dwell, head positioning time, hold, latency, or disk heads or at the end of an acoustic tank, rotational delay, rotational delay-time, rotational latency, search time, seek time, the time spent waiting for the desired location to appear under the drum, time stood-off, time-out, unhook time, waiting time), tabstid (break in the work, delay time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time), spildtid (break in the work, delay, delay time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time), forsinkelse (delay, lag, lay time, retardation, time of travel), arbejdspause (break in the work, delay time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time). (various references)

Dutch

dode tijd (delay, insensitive time), wachttijd (break in the work, days of demurrage, delay time, down time, dwell, latency, lay days, or disk heads or at the end of an acoustic tank, qualifying days, qualifying period, rotational delay, rotational delay-time, rotational latency, the time spent waiting for the desired location to appear under the drum, time stood-off, waiting time). (various references)

Finnish

viive (break in the work, delay, delay time, down time, dwell, lag, lay time, smearing, time of travel, time stood-off, transmission delay, waiting time), viipymä (delay), seisonta-aika (break in the work, days of demurrage, delay time, down time, lay days, time stood-off, waiting time), odotusaika (time of waiting, waiting period), kuollut aika (insensitive time), hukka-aika (break in the work, delay time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time). (various references)

French

temps mort (delay, delay time), temps d'attente (delay time, rotational delay, rotational delay-time, the time spent waiting for the desired location to appear under the drum), retard (delay). (various references)

German

Totzeit (delay, free time, idle time, insensitive time, paralysis time). (various references)

Greek 

νεκρός χρόνος (break in the work, delay time, down time, time stood-off, time-out, unhook time, waiting time), χρόνος νεκρώσεως (insensitive time), χαμένος χρόνος εργασίας (break in the work, delay time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time). (various references)

Hungarian

válaszjeladó holtidõ (transponder dead time). (various references)

Italian

tempo morto (break in the work, delay, delay time, down time, insensitive time, time stood-off, waiting time), tempo di ritardo (break in the work, delay, delay period, delay time, down time, lag, time stood-off, waiting time), tempo di pausa (break in the work, delay time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time), tempo di inermuzione (break in the work, delay time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time), tempo di attesa (break in the work, delay time, down time, dwell, latency, time stood-off, waiting time), interruzione di lavoro (break in the work, delay time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

デジタル通信 (copy editor, dead, dead copy, dead end, dead heat, dead stock, deadline, deadlock, death, death education, death mask, debug, debugger, debugging, deck, deck chair, dedicate, dedication, deduction, de-escalate, de-escalation, Denebola, denier, denim, denomination, denotation, denotational, department, department store, departure, description, desk, desk plan, desk work, desk-top, desperate, desperate struggle, despotism, destination, destroyer, detached coat, detail, detector, detente, deterrent gap, Detroit, devaluation, device, digital communication, distributor cap, divider, fight to a finish, hit a batter by pitching a ball, rough sketch, to eat at Denny's). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

デッドタイ� . (various references)

Pig Latin

eadday imetay

Portuguese

tempo morto (break in the work, delay, delay time, down time, free time, idle time, insensitive time, time stood-off, waiting time), tempo insensível (insensitive time), tempo de pausa (break in the work, delay time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time), tempo de espera (break in the work, delay time, down time, dwell time, latency, logistics time, time stood-off, waiting time), tempo de atraso (break in the work, delay, delay period, delay time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time), interrupções inesperadas (break in the work, delay time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time), atraso (arrear, arrears, backwardness, delay, lateness, retard, retardation, retardment). (various references)

Russian 

время простоя (down time, downtime, ineffective time, timeout value, timeout values). (various references)

Spanish

tiempo muerto (time out), tiempo de espera (break in the work, delay time, down time, latency, time stood-off, waiting time), retardo (retard, retardation, retardment), pausa en el trabajo (break in the work, delay time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time), interrupción en el trabajo (break in the work, delay time, down time, time stood-off, waiting time). (various references)

Swedish

dödtid (delay, insensitive time), väntetid (wait). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: mediated.

-1 letter: ideated, mediate.

-2 letters: diadem, dieted, edited, ideate, itemed, meated, mediad, mediae, teamed.

-3 letters: adeem, admit, aided, aimed, amide, dated, demit, edema, mated, media, meted, tamed, tided, timed.

-4 letters: adit, aide, amid, amie, dame, date, dead, deed, deem, deet, deme, died, diet, dime, dita, dite, edit, eide, emit, idea, idem, item, made, maid, mate, mead.

+1 letter: decimated, medicated, meditated.

+2 letters: deaminated, maledicted, readmitted, remediated, unmediated.

+3 letters: delaminated, denominated, desideratum, miseducated, multiheaded, preadmitted, unmedicated.

+4 letters: absentminded, administered, animadverted, demagnetized, democratized, dermatitides, disseminated, domesticated, hemihydrated, masterminded, predominated, premeditated, semidetached.

+5 letters: demilitarized, intermediated, overmedicated.