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ELAPSED TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elapsed time mean? 

ELAPSED TIME (noun)
  The noun ELAPSED TIME has 1 sense:

1. the time that elapses while some event is occurringplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


ELAPSED TIME (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The time that elapses while some event is occurring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

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

one-way light time; OWLT (the elapsed time it takes for light (or radio signals) to travel between the Earth and a celestial object)

round-trip light time; RTLT (the elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point)


 Context examples 


How long something has existed; elapsed time since birth.

(Age, NCI Thesaurus)



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