PROCESSING TIME

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time it takes to complete a prescribed procedure

Example:

they increased output by decreasing processing time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("processing time" is a kind of...):

interval; time interval (a definite length of time marked off by two instants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "processing time"):

command overhead; command processing overhead; command processing overhead time; overhead ((computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command)

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