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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
downtime
noun
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▪ Anyone working in an office setting knows this is a period of extreme downtime when little gets done.
▪ If the provider has a single connection to the outside world, ask how often it fails and the length of downtime.
▪ Needing less downtime than my subject, I have plenty of spare energy.
▪ The group intends to have System V achieve a downtime of about five minutes a year by 1999.
▪ They are relatively expensive items - but not compared to plant downtime.
▪ They involve design, materials, coordination, downtime on equipment, and evaluation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
downtime

1952, from down (adv.) + time (n.).

Wiktionary
downtime

n. 1 The amount of time lost due to forces beyond one's control, as with a computer crash. 2 A break or rest from work; leisure time.

WordNet
downtime

n. a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is not operating (especially as a result of malfunctions) [ant: uptime]

Wikipedia
Downtime (Doctor Who)

Downtime is a direct-to-video spin-off of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was released direct-to-video and produced by the independent production company Reeltime Pictures. It is a sequel to the Second Doctor serials The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear.

Downtime stars Nicholas Courtney, Deborah Watling, Jack Watling and Elisabeth Sladen reprising their roles as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Victoria Waterfield, Professor Edward Travers and Sarah Jane Smith, respectively. It introduces the character of Kate Lethbridge-Stewart.

Downtime (disambiguation)

The term downtime is used to refer to periods when a system is unavailable.

Downtime or Down Time may also refer to:

  • Downtime (break), a period of rest and relaxation, especially during a day of labour
  • Downtime (Doctor Who), a 1995 direct-to-video spin-off of the TV series Doctor Who
  • Downtime (film), a 1998 British film
  • "Downtime" (song), a 2001 single by Jo Dee Messina
  • " Down Time", a 2006 single by Aaradhna
  • Down Time, a Turbo Drop ride at Lake Compounce amusement park, Bristol, Connecticut
  • Uptime / Downtime, a 2010 double album by the Kleptones
  • A Mnemonic for the seven wastes of Muda (Japanese term)
Downtime

The term downtime is used to refer to periods when a system is unavailable. Downtime or outage duration refers to a period of time that a system fails to provide or perform its primary function. Reliability, availability, recovery, and unavailability are related concepts. The unavailability is the proportion of a time-span that a system is unavailable or offline. This is usually a result of the system failing to function because of an unplanned event, or because of routine maintenance (a planned event).

The term is commonly applied to networks and servers. The common reasons for unplanned outages are system failures (such as a crash) or communications failures (commonly known as network outage).

The term is also commonly applied in industrial environments in relation to failures in industrial production equipment. Some facilities measure the downtime incurred during a work shift, or during a 12- or 24-hour period. Another common practice is to identify each downtime event as having an operational, electrical or mechanical origin.

The opposite of downtime is uptime.

Downtime (film)

Downtime is a 1998 British film directed by Bharat Nalluri and produced by Richard L. Johns. It stars Paul McGann and Susan Lynch.

Downtime (song)

"Downtime" is a song written by Phillip Coleman and Carolyn Dawn Johnson, and recorded by American country music singer Jo Dee Messina. It was released in April 2001 as the third single from her album Burn. The song peaked at number 5 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart and peaked at number 46 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 making it a minor crossover hit.

Usage examples of "downtime".

A thousand cables were clearly labeled with nonremovable, easy-to-read tags, to minimize downtime in case of technical failure.

The downtime courier rides the quakes until he or she reaches a point before the original memo was written.

Trainability Testing became mandatory for every adolescent on Earth, and teams began to ransack the downtime worlds for Trainables among the endochronics.

Both uptime and downtime ends of wormhole are guarded by Chronologic Patrol ships.

The downtime Chronologic Patrol ship was just coming into view on her symbol-logic screens.

Come on, I'll introduce you to General Crespin, and then to DownTime, which has the moon's greatest supply of Corellian brandy.

That's one of the reasons we were so slow to notice the pattern of the downtimes, in fact—with no obvious physical damage anywhere, there was no reason to assume the Qasamans were responsible.

That's one of the reasons we were so slow to notice the pattern of the downtimes, in fact-with no obvious physical damage anywhere, there was no reason to assume the Qasamans were responsible.

That's one of the reasons we were so slow to notice the pattern of the downtimes, in fact—with no obvious physical damage anywhere, there was no reason to assume the Qasamans were responsible.

Maybe they eke out their dilute resources by submitting to long downtimes: hibernation, slow computation rates, stretching an hour of awareness across a million years.

Maybe they eke out their dilute resources by submitting to long downtimes: hibernation, slow computation rates, stretching an hour of awareness across a million years .

He was still fully conscious, and so far as he could tell there had been no interruption, no downtime.

I'm afraid, Goldie, I can't declare you winner by default on the grounds that Skeeter will be gone for at least two weeks downtime.

They worked -- though they were approaching the limits of their design load and as a result suffering a lot of downtime.

Losing two 'eighty-sixers--even if one were a downtimer and the other a gate crashing con man and thief-would definitely not be good for their public image or their business.