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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | The time during which a functional unit cannot be used owing to a fault. Source: European Union. (references) |
Economics | The total of the planned and unplanned unavailability time, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Labor | Pauses in normal work activities caused by circumstances beyond the employees'control(power break-downs, lack of materials). Source: European Union. (references) |
Meteorology & Standards | The period of time during which an item is not in a condition to perform its intended function. Note 1: the down time of an item will be made up of active maintenance time and delays due to awaiting labour, awaiting spare, facilities, movement, etc. Note 2: unless otherwise stated, down time of an item, due to failure, is considered to commence at the instant the item is determined to have failed. Note 3: unless otherwise stated, down time will include any additional time necessary to reach the same stage in the working programme of the item as at the time of failure. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The time interval measured from aircraft load separation to ground impact. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: DOWN TIME |
| Specialty definitions using "DOWN TIME": chief console operator, COMPUTER OPERATOR ♦ logistics time ♦ MAILING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ SUPERVISOR, COMPUTER OPERATIONS, supervisor, data processing. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Kenya | Down time is always expensive. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "DOWN TIME": unplanned down time. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
down time | 10 |
down time movie | 3 |
count down time | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DOWN TIME"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ventetid (access motion time, access time, break in the work, dead time, delay 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, dead time, delay time, time stood-off, waiting time), spildtid (break in the work, dead time, delay, delay time, time stood-off, waiting time), arbejdspause (break in the work, dead time, delay time, time stood-off, waiting time). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wachttijd (break in the work, days of demurrage, dead time, delay 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), storingstijd (downtime), stilstandstijd (downtime). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | viive (break in the work, dead time, delay, delay time, dwell, lag, lay time, smearing, time of travel, time stood-off, transmission delay, waiting time), seisonta-aika (break in the work, days of demurrage, dead time, delay time, lay days, time stood-off, waiting time), odotusaika (time of waiting, waiting period), hukka-aika (break in the work, dead time, delay time, time stood-off, waiting time). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | duree d'immobilisation (downtime), temps mort, temps d'attente. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wartezeit (latency, wait, waiting period, waiting time), betriebsbedingte Ausfallzeit (break in the work, dead time, delay time, time stood-off, waiting time), Ausfallzeit (downtime). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νεκρός χρόνος (break in the work, dead time, delay time, time stood-off, time-out, unhook time, waiting time), χαμένος χρόνος εργασίας (break in the work, dead time, delay time, time stood-off, waiting time). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tempo morto (break in the work, dead time, delay, delay time, insensitive time, time stood-off, waiting time), tempo di ritardo (break in the work, dead time, delay, delay period, delay time, lag, time stood-off, waiting time), tempo di pausa (break in the work, dead time, delay time, time stood-off, waiting time), tempo di inermuzione (break in the work, dead time, delay time, time stood-off, waiting time), tempo di attesa (break in the work, dead time, delay time, dwell, latency, time stood-off, waiting time), interruzione di lavoro (break in the work, dead time, delay time, time stood-off, waiting time). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ownday imetay tempo morto (break in the work, dead time, delay, delay time, free time, idle time, insensitive time, time stood-off, waiting time), tempo de pausa (break in the work, dead time, delay time, time stood-off, waiting time), tempo de espera (break in the work, dead time, delay time, dwell time, latency, logistics time, time stood-off, waiting time), tempo de atraso (break in the work, dead time, delay, delay period, delay time, time stood-off, waiting time), interrupções inesperadas (break in the work, dead time, delay time, time stood-off, waiting time). (various references) время простоя (dead time, downtime, ineffective time, timeout value, timeout values). (various references) tiempo de espera (break in the work, dead time, delay time, latency, time stood-off, waiting time), pausa en el trabajo (break in the work, dead time, delay time, time stood-off, waiting time), interrupción en el trabajo (break in the work, dead time, delay time, time stood-off, waiting time). (various references) väntetid (wait). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: downtime. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-m-n-o-t-w" | |
-1 letter: midtown. | |
-2 letters: domine, emodin, minted, monied, townie, twined, wonted. | |
-3 letters: demit, demon, denim, dowie, dwine, endow, indow, mined, monde, monie, monte, mowed, noted, owned, teind, timed, tined, tondi, toned, towed, towie, twine, widen, wined, wited, women. | |
-4 letters: demo, deni, dent, diet, dime, dine, dint, dite, doit, dome, done, dote, down, edit, emit, enow, idem. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-m-n-o-t-w" | |
+1 letter: downtimes. | |
+2 letters: disownment. | |
+3 letters: disownments. | |
+4 letters: disendowment. | |
+5 letters: disendowments. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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