Meaning

2 senses
  1. The allowed maximal time for a process to end normally.

    Timeout, Zeitbeschränkung

  2. The intentional termination of an incomplete task after a time limit considered long enough for it to end normally.

    My connection was so slow that I kept receiving timeouts when trying to view Web pages.

    Timeout, Zeitüberschreitung

Examples

2 sentences
  1. The competitors both took medical timeouts in their final, grueling match on a sweltering summer day.

  2. Timeouts are out.

Translations

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By meaning 2
the allowed maximal time for a process to end normally:
the intentional termination of an incomplete task after a time limit:

Origin

From time + out.

From time + out.

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Forms

plural: timeouts

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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