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elapsed time

n. the time that elapses while some event is occurring

Usage examples of "elapsed time".

The amount of elapsed time in the field will not affect the return.

That won't involve much elapsed time in this framework but it does involve a slight -element of risk.

While he had been ferreting out the gum, within those few seconds of elapsed time, the man in the hole had gone back to sleep.

Let's hope this happens at the end of a little more than two hundred and thirty-two seconds elapsed time, rather than less.

Since Jim knows that Slim is speeding along at 120 miles per hour, he is able to figure out the length of the car by multiplying this speed by the elapsed time on his stopwatch.

Made on an adjoining paratime belt by a company that went out of business sixty-seven years ago, elapsed time, on your line of operation.