Downtime

Definition: Downtime

Downtime

Noun

1. A period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is not operating (especially as a result of malfunctions).

Specialty Definition: Downtime

Domain	Definition
Computing	Down-time A period of time during which a (computer) system is not operational, due to a malfunction or maintenance. (1997-06-08). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Aerospace	A period during which equipment is not operating correctly because of machine failure. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Downtime

Synonym by domain: down-time (electrical engineering, mechanical engineering).

Antonym: uptime (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Downtime

Specialty definitions using "downtime": automatic component insertion operator ♦ BRIQUETTE OPERATOR ♦ component insertion operator ♦ DISC-PAD GRINDER ♦ ELECTRICIAN, POWERHOUSE ♦ INSERTION MACHINE TENDER, ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS ♦ mail storm, MAT INSPECTOR ♦ production controller, PRODUCTION COORDINATOR, production expediter, production scheduler, progress clerk ♦ ROUTER SET-UP OPERATOR, NUMERICAL CONTROL ♦ schedule clerk, STACKER TENDER, SUPERVISOR, SPINNING ♦ W2K bug. (references)

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Modern Usage: Downtime

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Downtime (1985)
Song Titles	Downtime (performing artist: Jo Dee Messina)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Downtime

Domain	Title
Books	B&t Weekend Electronic Ordering Downtime Information (B&t Promotional Material 10 Unit Pre Pack) (reference) Cost-Effective Maintenance Management: Productivity Improvement and Downtime Reduction (reference) Diagnosing the Army's Equipment Readiness: The Equipment Downtime Analyzer (reference) Downtime (reference) DownTime : A Guide to Federal Incarceration (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Downtime (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Downtime

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Users preferred fast service at lower price, with minimal downtime and interruption to their daily port operations. (references)
		Unmatched in the industry, these standards provide for the harsh weather conditions prevailing in the country and, therefore, aim at reducing equipment downtime. (references)
		For the electronics industry, there is also a continuing trend to utilize quick-change tooling and fixturing to reduce machine downtime and increase productive "chipmaking" hours. (references)
Economic History	Bangladesh	Hartals raise the cost of doing business in Bangladesh due to the downtime they impose on commercial activity. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Downtime

"Downtime" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Downtime" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	17	85,106

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Downtime

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
downtime	37
downtime tracking	28
downtime freedom	6
downtime nyc	4
downtime cost	4
club downtime	3
connect downtime kanban web	3
machine downtime	3
downtime minimize	2
server downtime	2
costly disruption downtime without	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Downtime

Language		Translations for "downtime"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kohë joproduktive. (various references)

Arabic		‏مضبوط تماما. (various references)

Bulgarian		престой (abidance, continuance, dead time, idle time, lay over, outage, residence, stay, stopover), принудително бездействие. (various references)

Danish		forhold der bestemmer tiden ude af drift (activities determining downtime). (various references)

Dutch		storingstijd (down time), stilstandstijd (down time). (various references)

French		duree d'immobilisation (down time), durée d'une coupure, durée d'un arrêt, temps d'arrêt, période d'arrêt. (various references)

German		ausfallzeit (down time, outage period, outage time, unplanned down time, unplanned outage time, unplanned unavailability time), Stillstandszeit. (various references)

Greek		χρόνοσ αργίασ. (various references)

Hungarian		állásidõ. (various references)

Italian		periodo morto (slack). (various references)

Korean		가동불능시간. (various references)

Pig Latin		owntimeday

Portuguese		inatividade formada. (various references)

Russian		время простоя (dead time, down time, ineffective time, timeout value, timeout values), простой в работе (outage). (various references)

Spanish		falta del tiempo. (various references)

Ukrainian		час простою, простій. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Downtime

Derivations
	Words beginning with "downtime": downtimes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Downtime" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: downline, downtide. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Downtime"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "downtime" (pronounced dou"ntī'm)
4	-n t ī' m	centime, meantime, noontime.
3	-t ī' m	airtime, anytime, bedtime, daytime, dinnertime, flextime, halftime, lifetime, longtime, lunchtime, maritime, mealtime, nighttime, overtime, pastime, peacetime, ragtime, schooltime, showtime, sometime, springtime, summertime, wartime, wintertime.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Downtime

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	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.
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