AT A TIME

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does at a time mean? 

• AT A TIME (adverb)
  The adverb AT A TIME has 1 sense:

1. simultaneously

  Familiarity information: AT A TIME used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AT A TIME (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Simultaneously

Synonyms:

at a time; at once; at one time

Context example:

he took three cookies at a time

 Context examples 

A question about whether an individual does or did become confused and start several actions at a time.

(Did You Become Confused and Start Several Actions at a Time, NCI Thesaurus)

Bacteria and viruses only process one replication fork at a time, while eukaryotic DNA has many replication forks moving along DNA strands at the same time.

(DNA Replication Fork, NCI Thesaurus)

A solid dosage form which releases a drug (or drugs) at a time other than promptly after administration.

(Delayed Release Tablet Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

But she had made one point, and she could not expect to make more than one at a time.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I ate them by two or three at a mouthful, and took three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket bullets.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He has many friends, and is at a time of life when friends and engagements are continually increasing.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Catalyses DNA-template-directed extension of the 3'- end of a DNA strand by one nucleotide at a time.

(DNA-directed DNA Polymerase, NCI Thesaurus)

He was ordinarily gone from three to four days, though it was nothing unusual for him to stay away a week at a time on the ice-field.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Each time he performed the journey with greater swagger, but he never brought more than a few dollars at a time.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The researchers layered the elements one atomic plane at a time so sheets of titanium oxide one-atom thick transferred an electron to sheets of cobalt oxide with the same thickness.

(Picoscience and a plethora of new materials, National Science Foundation)