off time
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.77 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Time when the medication for a chronic condition is less effective in controlling symptoms.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The point in time when the official starter signals that a race begins, as distinct from the time the race is scheduled to start (post time).
Countable; Uncountable
adj
Alternative form of off-time.
Example Sentences
- "It was not the days of drudgery in the rice fields but the hours of off time that most shaped the contours of slave culture."
- "It also robs us of the opportunity get away from the job and decompress during off time."
- "Most would be completed during the “off time” of our year, i.e., when there was minimum usage by tourists."
- "The computer program allows the cable operator to sell primetime spots for more money than off time."
- "Usually, a clock waveform used in a system is a square wave. Occasionally, rectangular waveform may also be used. The time period T is the sum of the on time and off time."
- "When the off time was 0 s, namely, the illumination is continuous, a black film was deposited."