time belt
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.41 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A range of timeslots when scheduled programs can expect a certain type of audience, and for which advertisements pay a certain rate.
noun
Synonym of time period.
noun
Synonym of timing belt.
Example Sentences
- "The package rate is generally a total price for a schedule of spots at different time belts that costs less than the total of the rates for the individual spots making up the package."
- "Both devote a large amount of time, in the fifth time belt, to news."
- "7. A sponsored programmed shall only be broadcast during the time belt in which it is legal for the sponsor to advertise its products."
- "Prices for each of these vary based on length of time (duration) and the time belt (am, pm, fringe time, primetime) required."
- "I've set it for the year dot, as it were. I wonder how long ago that is? A million years? A billion? They will put the time belt on the creature and press the little button."
- "Lancaster explains to Kensington that Kensington must put on the Time Belt—it's set to take him back to the moment of the assassination and will automatically merge him back into the proper time stream."