POINT IN TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does point in time mean? 

• POINT IN TIME (noun)
  The noun POINT IN TIME has 1 sense:

1. an instant of time

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POINT IN TIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An instant of time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

point; point in time

Context example:

at that point I had to leave

Hypernyms ("point in time" is a kind of...):

amount; measure; quantity (how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify)

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

distance (a remote point in time)

deadline (the point in time at which something must be completed)

arrival time; time of arrival (the time at which a public conveyance is scheduled to arrive at a given destination)

departure time; time of departure (the time at which a public conveyance is scheduled to depart from a given point of origin)

midterm (middle of an academic term or a political term in office)

full term; term (the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent)

midterm (the middle of the gestation period)

instant; minute; moment; second (a particular point in time)

run-time (the time at which a (software or multimedia) program is run)

beginning; commencement; first; get-go; kickoff; offset; outset; showtime; start; starting time (the time at which something is supposed to begin)

middle (time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period)

end; ending (the point in time at which something ends)

phase; phase angle (a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle)

show time (the point in time at which an entertainment (a movie or television show etc.) is scheduled to begin)

then (that time; that moment)

 Context examples 

A representation of a particular edition or snapshot of a document as it exists at a particular point in time.

(Document Version, NCI Thesaurus)

A character string that identifies a given collection of content of a document at a point in time.

(Document Version Number Text, NCI Thesaurus)

It may also occur at some point in time after a stem cell transplant that caused chronic graft-versus-host disease.

(Contracture, NCI Dictionary)

A characterization of the relationship of an concomitant medication use beginning point in time to a reference point in time.

(Concomitant Medication Use Start Relative to Reference Period, NCI Thesaurus)

A characterization of the relationship of an concomitant medication use conclusion point in time to a reference point in time.

(Concomitant Medication Use End Relative to Reference Period, NCI Thesaurus)

A fixed point in time during an electrocardiogram.

(Electrocardiogram Time Point Reference, NCI Thesaurus)

A point in time that the exposure takes place.

(Exposure Time Point, NCI Thesaurus)

Information about the antibodies in a person’s blood at a given point in time.

(Immunosignature, NCI Dictionary)

It may occur at some point in time after radiation therapy to the liver and bile ducts or after high-dose anticancer drugs were given before a stem cell transplant.

(Hepatic veno-occlusive disease, NCI Dictionary)

A fixed point in time during an exposure.

(Exposure Time Point Reference, NCI Thesaurus)