connect time

[ kuh-nekt tahym ]

noun

, Computers.

1. the amount of time that a computer is logged on to a remote computer or server, as through an internet service provider.

Word History and Origins

Origin of connect time¹

First recorded in 1975–80

Example Sentences

The story of the grapes we turn into wine stretches back across the entirety of human history, so Franchi's first task for devising a graphic on their 200,000-year, continent-spanning evolution was to connect time and space on the page, he says.

From Scientific American

There is what is an allowable connect time, and there is what is reasonable, and these often are not the same.

From Seattle Times

Consumers generally won’t have access to the complete listing of all MCTs, but you can Google your flight and your airports and “connect time” and get a better idea.

From Seattle Times

In this dingy room, smelling of dust and drugs and the heavy odour of the ailantus tree, she felt a presence more profoundly real, more poignantly significant, than any material forms—the presence of those elemental forces which connect time with eternity.

From Project Gutenberg

CompuServe reported "Off at 09:12 EST 17-Nov-88 Connect time = 0:35."

From Project Gutenberg