Meaning of dead time in English
(Definition of dead time from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of dead time
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Never mind, let us look at that house in the dead time of year.
From Project Gutenberg
But," following the glance of the other at his luggage, "this is a very dead time of the night with us, sir.
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Her eyes, wherein the dead time hung just above the underlids, lingered, as with the wish for him to name the name.
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There could be no other explanation of their quitting their vessel at this dead time of night.
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It was a dead time, and the whole station seemed nearly deserted.
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He felt a longing to tell her how false his croakings had been in that old dead time so long ago as last night.
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In the dead time of night we heard footsteps, and voices in the room below our dormitory, and gave all up for lost.
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The league estimates removing the pitcher's four meaningless lobs to the plate would cut down about a minute of dead time for each walk.
From New York Post
I used to think of commutes as dead time.
From Business Insider
Let's ditch the extra period instead, and just call it even after 60 minutes of game clock and twice as long spent on dead time between plays and commercial breaks.
From USA TODAY
The practical prototype contains features such as nonminimum phase, dead time, resonant, and turbulent disturbance behavior that motivate the utilization of intelligent control techniques.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Following a dead time, a fourth measurement is sampled (temperature).
From the Cambridge English Corpus
To correctly calculate the photon rates, this “dead time” was subtracted from the total time.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
He had nowhere to go--four o'clock is a dead time to drop in on people!
From Project Gutenberg
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