What is "down-time"

Usage examples of "down-time".

An additional inefficiency of the inferior down-time mills is that bagasse has to be moved to drying areas and then to the evaporation area where it is used as fuel.

This means that Grantville will be depending on the skills of down-timer brickmakers.

Denver cathouses are among the few down-time attractions Skeeter Jackson has visited.

Even ignoring the engineering and design gap, every substitution you make of down-time materials downgrades the safety and reliability of the aircraft and probably its payload as well.

This is possible down-time, but whereas the modern method is a continuous process, down-time operations are likely to be a batch process.

This was a proposal to buy into the little light bulb shop a down-timer had set up.

Even the nicest down-time men often had a nasty habit of beating their favorite women for cardinal sins like talking too much.

To insure survival, Grantville and the local down-time farmers need to find suitable draft animals.

In the course of it, he mentioned that the administration in Fulda had made several arrests in connection with an outbreak of scurrilous pamphlets, commented that he had refused to authorize the use of judicial torture in the case, and added that, by the way, the pamphlets had been produced on a very ingenious down-time designed and manufactured duplicating machine marketed by a Herr Vignelli from Bozen.

Since electron microscopes won't be feasible for some years, to some degree the down-time doctors are going to have to take statements about viruses on faith.

Skeeter paused as they shouldered their way through Victoria Station and bought a single rose from a flower girl, another down-timer who had sewn her own street-vendor costume and grew her flowers in the station's lower levels.

Skeeter paused as they shouldered their way through Victoria Station and bought a single rose from a flower girl, another down-timer who had sewn her own street-vendor costume and grew her flowers in the station’.

He was sleeping in a cot in a small room on the top floor, next to the array of large blue bottles and annexed wires and stuff that constituted a down-time radio room.

With special expertise in conflicts of matrimonial law between up-time and down-time statutes.

However, longer-fiber cottons are easier to mercerize than short-fiber ones, and the cotton available down-time is the shortest-fiber species.