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Definition: Uptime |
UptimeNoun1. A period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is functioning and available for use. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Antonym: downtime (n). (additional references) |
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It is often used a measure of computer operating system reliability and stability, in that this time represents the time a computer can be left unattended without crashinging, or needing to be rebooted for administrative or maintenance purposes.
Netcraft maintains the uptime records for many thousands of web-hosting computers.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Uptime."
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| "Uptime" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Uptime" is used about 7 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% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
uptime | 79 |
uptime window | 10 |
institute uptime | 8 |
uptime visual | 6 |
server uptime | 6 |
system uptime | 4 |
99.9 uptime guarantee | 4 |
mirc script uptime | 3 |
uptime solution | 3 |
network uptime | 3 |
inc.com uptime | 3 |
uptime window xp | 2 |
2000 uptime window | 2 |
free network uptime ware | 2 |
uptime monitor | 2 |
device uptime | 2 |
linux uptime | 2 |
electronics uptime | 2 |
get linux uptime | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "uptime"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 正常运行时间. (various references) | ||||||||||
French | durée de fonctionnent. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | betriebszeit (duty, machine time, operating time, power-on time, up time). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | imeuptay рабочее время (labour hours, office hours, operating time, operating-time). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "uptime": uptimes. (additional references) | |
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"Uptime" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: optime. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: impute. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-m-p-t-u" | |
-1 letter: tempi. | |
-2 letters: emit, etui, item, mite, mute, temp, time, tump. | |
-3 letters: emu, imp, met, mut, pet, pie, pit, piu, put, tie, tip, tui, tup, ump. | |
-4 letters: em, et, it, me, mi, mu, pe, pi, ti, um, up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-m-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: impetus, imputed, imputer, imputes, pinetum, uptimes. | |
+2 letters: apterium, bumpiest, dumpiest, humpiest, impudent, imputers, jumpiest, lumpiest, multiped, multiple, plumiest, pumicite, spumiest, stumpier, tumpline. | |
+3 letters: amplitude, clumpiest, equipment, euphemist, frumpiest, glumpiest, grumpiest, impetuous, impetuses, importune, impostume, imposture, imprudent, imputable, multipage, multipeds, multiples, multiplet, multiplex, multipole, multistep, neptunium, penultima, permuting, plummiest, pneumatic, presummit, pterygium, pumicites, reptilium, rumpliest, septarium, stumpiest, trapezium, triumphed, tumplines. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 70 74 69 6D 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- .--. - .. -- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01110000 01110100 01101001 01101101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U p t i m e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 0070 0074 0069 006D 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558286757971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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