PROCESSING TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does processing time mean? 

• PROCESSING TIME (noun)
  The noun PROCESSING TIME has 1 sense:

1. the time it takes to complete a prescribed procedure

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROCESSING TIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time it takes to complete a prescribed procedure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

they increased output by decreasing processing time

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

interval; time interval (a definite length of time marked off by two instants)

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

command overhead; command processing overhead; command processing overhead time; overhead ((computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command)