word time

noun

, Computers.

1. the time required to transfer a machine word, especially one stored serially, from one memory unit to another.

Example Sentences

Take the word "time" — surely a universal word denoting a universal concept?

From Salon

You’re brought up to believe that’s around every corner and if you take the wrong step off the subway platform… I see my work as pretty morbid throughout, and I think the secret to why Hamilton has had the success it’s had, is it ends on two big questions: it ends on the word “time”; and it ends on who lives, who dies, who tells your story?

From The Guardian

The next one arrives on 14 February 2019 and the band's mastermind said its title is an "oxymoron" or "paradox", which he said better explains how he feels about the nature of time than the word time itself.

From BBC

You couldn’t be more English than Powell, who kept Burke’s Landed Gentry at his bedside, but his Proustian credentials mostly consist in writing an immensely long, multivolume novel with the word “time” in the title.

From The New Yorker

Instances such as these demonstrate Dylan’s own obsessiveness with reworking a verse or a chorus, a line, a phrase or even a single word time and again until he found the one that felt right.

From Los Angeles Times