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QUICK TIME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quick time mean?
• QUICK TIME (noun)
The noun QUICK TIME has 1 sense:
1. a normal marching pace of 120 steps per minute
Familiarity information: QUICK TIME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A normal marching pace of 120 steps per minute
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("quick time" is a kind of...):
gait; pace (the rate of moving (especially walking or running))
Context examples
The worm will settle my business in double-quick time.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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