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ELAPSED TIME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The time that elapses while some event is occurring
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("elapsed time" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "elapsed time"):
one-way light time; OWLT (the elapsed time it takes for light (or radio signals) to travel between the Earth and a celestial object)
round-trip light time; RTLT (the elapsed time it takes for a signal to travel from Earth to a spacecraft (or other body) and back to the starting point)
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