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off time

noun, adj, adv — 8 senses

off time

nounalso spelled off-time
1

Time when one is not working.

  • 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.1985, Charles Joyner, Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community, →ISBN, page 127:
  • It also robs us of the opportunity get away from the job and decompress during off time.2011, J. Leith Harrell, The Peace Officer's Companion, →ISBN:
2

Time when the activity of a business is diminished; off-season.

  • Most would be completed during the “off time” of our year, i.e., when there was minimum usage by tourists.2011, T. W. Strait, A Ranger's Life: To Park Or Not to Park, That Is the Recreation, →ISBN, page 45:
  • The computer program allows the cable operator to sell primetime spots for more money than off time.2013, Douglas Stevenson, Robert Wolenik, Creating PC Video, →ISBN:
3

Business, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Electronics, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics The time interval when no current flows.

  • 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.2007, Seetharaman Ramachandran, Digital VLSI Systems Design, →ISBN, page 73:
  • When the off time was 0 s, namely, the illumination is continuous, a black film was deposited.2004, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics: Letters - Volume 43, page 197:
4

Medicine, Sciences Time when the medication for a chronic condition is less effective in controlling symptoms.

  • Frequently, the first "off" time is experienced after the longest delay between two doses of medication, which is usually between the last does in the evening and the first does in the morning.2012, Ronald F. Pfeiffer, Zbigniew K. Wszolek, Manuchair Ebadi, Parkinson's Disease, Second Edition, →ISBN, page 1047:
  • Adding an inhibitor of catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT), an enzyme involved in the breakdown of levodopa and dopamine, can help prolong the duration of action of levodopa and reduce OFF time.2013, David Burn, Oxford Textbook of Movement Disorders, →ISBN, page 84:
5

Hobbies, Lifestyle, Motor racing, Racing, Sports 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).

  • It is suggested that Rule VIII (c) requires that the drivers be on the track 5 minutes before off time, not post time, and that since off time can not be known until the race actually starts, the rule is meaningless.1958, Sidney O. Raphael, Petition against The State harness Racing Commission, page 75:
  • That meant if you didn't bet on the off time posted on the infield board the race went off anyways.2009, Eli Schleifer With Robert Temple, The Pilgrims Would Be Shocked: The History Of Thoroughbred Racing in New England, →ISBN:

off-time

adj
1

Occurring at a time other than the normal point in the process of growth and development.

Social psychology

  • In the literature these "off-time" youngsters have been termed "early" and "late" developers (Petersen and Taylor, 1980).1987, Roberta G. Simmons, Dale A. Blyth, Moving Into Adolescence, →ISBN:
  • In addition to role discontinuity and lack of preparation for new roles, it appears that being "off-time" in taking on new roles or disengaging from old ones may make transitions more stressful, and that taking on multiple roles may be more difficult for the individual than a transition to only one new role or role-set.1990, Morris Rosenberg, Ralph H. Turner, Social Psychology: Sociological Perspectives, →ISBN, page 148:
1 more example
  • An off-time transition is difficult to deal with because no norms of behavior or social rituals exist to guide the person experiencing the change.2013, Eileen Berlin Ray, Communication and Disenfranchisement: Social Health Issues and Implications., →ISBN:
2

Out of sync; unsynchronized.

  • Better, said he, were “marches with college tunes in the trio [final section] against the original themes” creating an amusing “off-key and off-time” agglomeration of sound (Ives, 1976, p.41).2013, James W. Barron, Humor and Psyche: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, →ISBN:
  • All told, some 30 subjects generated over 1.5 million trials in the remote and off-time experiments.2015, Ulisse Di Corpo, Antonella Vannini, SYNTROPY: The Spirit of Love, →ISBN, page 30:
1 more example
  • Reformers argued that the off-year or off-time (or off-cycle) scheduling of elections for school board and other local offices allows voters to focus on the issues unique to the race at hand.2015, Myron Levine, Urban Politics: Cities and Suburbs in a Global Age, →ISBN:

off-time

adv
1

Occurring at a non-normal time.

  • In general, those life events taking place early off-time have greater negative impact than those taking place late off-time.2014, E. Mark Cummings, Anita L. Greene, Katherine H. Karraker, Life-span Developmental Psychology, →ISBN:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — authors: page histories for off time and off-time.