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Time horizon A time horizon, also known as a planning horizon, is a fixed point of time in the future at which point certain processes will be evaluated or assumed to end. It is necessary in an accounting, finance or risk management regime to assign such a fixed horizon time so that alternatives can be evaluated for performance over the same period of time.
Time Highway Radio TIME Highway Radio or THR was the name of Malaysia's first private commercial radio station, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The station was the initiative and for some time the flagship station of the TIME Engineering conglomerate, and as the name suggests the station was targeted at road/highway users with traffic reports and entertainment.
Time Honoured Ghosts Time Honoured Ghosts is an album released by English rockgroup Barclay James Harvest in 1975. The title was suggested by the wife of Harvey Lisburg, the band's manager at the time, though it is believe that she was quoting from another unknown source.
Time Chasers Time Chasers (aka Tangents) is a 1994 science fiction film produced by David Giancola and starring Matthew Bruch, George Woodard, and Bonnie Pritchard. The film follows the adventures of an amateur inventor who goes through time with his female accomplice to stop an evil megacorporation intent on changing history for profit.
Time in Australia In mainland Australia, the keeping of standard time is divided into three time zones: Australian Eastern Standard Time EST/AEST (UTC+10), Australian Central Standard Time CST/ACST (UTC+9:30) and Australian Western Standard Time WST/AWST (UTC+8). There are also some areas using a time unofficially known as Australian Central Western Standard Time (UTC+8:45).
Time in Brazil Brazil has four time zones. It also observes summer time; however, not only do the starting and ending dates often change from year to year, it is also not followed by all states (which ones observe summer time can change from year to year).
Time in Germany Germany uses Central European Time (Mitteleuropäische Zeit, MEZ; UTC+1) and Central European Summer Time (Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit, MESZ; UTC+2). Daylight Saving Time is observed from the last sunday in March (02:00 CET) to the last sunday in October (03:00 CEST).
Time in China China, with its large territory, spans across the longitude of five time zones. For the past few decades, however, the geographical region of China, which includes mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, has been in the same time zone which is eight hours ahead of the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+8).
Time in Indiana Time in Indiana refers to the controversial time zone division of Indiana, and to the state's historical response to the innovation of Daylight saving time. The official dividing line between Eastern Time and Central Time has, over time, progressively moved west, from Indiana's eastern border, to a position where it divided Indiana down the middle, to closer to Indiana's western border as it is today.
Time in New Zealand New Zealand has two time zones. The main islands use New Zealand Standard Time (NZST), 12 hours in advance of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), while the outlying Chatham Islands use Chatham Standard Time (CHAST), 12:45 in advance of UTC.
Time in the United States United States time zones are nine standard time zones covering the states and possessions of the United States, used in conjunction with state and national legislation regarding the use of daylight saving time.
Time Independent Escape Sequence The Time Independent Escape Sequence, or TIES, was short-lived modem standard invented to avoid a patent held by Hayes Microcomputer Products. TIES was an escape sequence that switched the modem from "data mode" to "command mode", allowing instructions to be sent to the modem to control it.
Time Is Money (DuckTales) Time Is Money is a five-part serial from the second season of the Disney animated series DuckTales. Originally aired as a television movie, it served as the introduction to Bubba the Caveduck and his pet Triceratops, Tootsie.
Time Is Money (pricing game) Time Is Money is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. Debuting on the Season 32 premiere on September 22, 2003, this game is played for a four-digit prize worth more than $3,000, and uses grocery items.
Time Is on My Side "Time Is on My Side" is a song written by Jerry Ragovoy (under the pseudonym of Norman Meade). First recorded by jazz trombonist Kai Winding and his Orchestra in 1963, it was covered by both soul singer Irma Thomas and rock band The Rolling Stones in 1964.
Time Killers Time Killers is a fighting game widely released in arcades, produced by a game company named Strata and developed by Incredible Technologies in 1992, most likely in an attempt to cash in on the success of Mortal Kombat.
Time line of the geologic history of the United States This time line of the geologic history of the United States chronologically lists important events occurring within the present political boundaries of United States (including territories) before 12,000 years ago. This time line segment may include some events that occurred outside these borders that profoundly influenced later American life and its present landscape.
Time lock A time lock is a locking mechanism commonly found in bank vaults and other high-security containers. The time lock is an auxiliary locking mechanism designed to prevent the opening of the safe or vault until the time lock unlocks the safe at a preset time and day, even if the correct combination(s) are known.
Time loop A time loop is a fictional situation in which time runs normally for a set period (usually a day or a few hours) but then skips back like a broken record. When the time loop "resets", the memories of most characters are reset (i.
Time loop logic Time loop logic is a system of computation that requires the computer to be able to send data backwards through time, and relies upon the Novikov self-consistency principle to force the result of a computation sent backwards through time to be correct. This approach can overcome many limitations on traditional algorithmic complexity.
Time Lord The Time Lords are a fictional race of humanoids, originating on the planet Gallifrey, seen in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The Doctor himself is a Time Lord, albeit in self-imposed exile from his own people.
Time Lord (role-playing game) Time Lord — Adventures through Time and Space is a Doctor Who role-playing game, written by Ian Marsh and Peter Darvill-Evans and published in 1991 by Virgin Publishing. This game is totally unrelated to the previously released Doctor Who RPG by FASA.
Time management Time management includes tools or techniques for planning and scheduling time, usually with the aim to increase the effectiveness and/or efficiency of personal and corporate time use. These are embodied in a number of books, seminars and courses, which may offer conflicting advice.
Time Machine (album) Time Machine is an instrumental rock album released by Joe Satriani in 1993. The first CD is comprised of new, unreleased, and rare studio (such as tracks from Satriani's self-released 1985 EP) recordings, while the second one is comprised of live recordings culled from tours in 1988 and 1992.
Time Machine (Apple software) Time Machine is a backup utility announced and first demonstrated on August 7 2006 at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, and is scheduled to be included with the Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" operating system.
Time Machine (book series) Time Machine was a series of children's books published by Bantam Books from 1984 to 1989, similar to their more successful Choose Your Own Adventure line of "interactive" novels. Each book was in the second person, with the reader choosing how the story should progress.
Time Matters Time Matters is a "database" program that is designed for professionals and lawyers to manage their time, their documents, their emails, their billing, their finances, and all information about their practice in a single unified database. Time Matters(R) is sold by LexisNexis Time Matters Software.
Time of flight detector A time of flight detector is a particle detector which can discriminate between a lighter and a heavier elementary particle of same momentum using their time of flight between two scintillators. The first of the scintillators activates a clock upon being hit while the other stops the clock upon being hit.
Time of flight diffraction ultrasonics Time of Flight Diffraction (TOFD) method of Ultrasonic inspection is a very sensitive and accurate method for nondestructive testing of welds for defects. TOFD is a computerised system that was invented in the UK in the 1970s for the nuclear industry by Dr.
Time of Judgment Time of Judgment is a series of roleplaying game scenario books for the World of Darkness settings of White Wolf Game Studio. These scenarios are presented as the semi-canonical endings of the original World of Darkness, as preparation for the new version of the setting.
Time of occurrence In forensic investigation, the time of occurrence of an event (such as time of death, time of incident) is one of the most important things to determine accurately as soon as possible. Sometimes this can only be estimated.
Time of our Darkness Time of our Darkness is a novel by South African author Stephen Gray. It tells the story of a homosexual teacher in 1980s Apartheid South Africa and his relationship with his long term partner and a young black boy.
Time of pitch In baseball, the time of pitch is that instant when the pitcher has begun his pitching motion and, by the rules, has committed himself to throwing the pitch. This instant thus occurs before the pitcher actually releases the ball.
Time of the Apes (literally, "SF Drama: Army of the Apes"), produced/filmed in 1974 and released in 1987, is a Japanese science fiction film. A teacher and two children take refuge in cryogenic capsules to escape an earthquake, only to wake up in a world populated by sentient apes.
Time of the Gypsies Time of the Gypsies (Serbian: Dom Za Vešanje) is a 1988 film by Serbian director Emir Kusturica. Filmed in Romani and Serbian, Time of the Gypsies tells the story of a young Roma man with magical powers and a penchant for petty crime.
Time of the Twins Time of the Twins is a fantasy novel in the Dragonlance series written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. It is the beginning of the Dragonlance Legends Trilogy, a series detailing the journey of fictional twins, the warrior Caramon Majere and the mage Raistlin Majere, along with the cleric Crysania.
Time of Troubles The Time of Troubles (Russian: Смутное время, Smutnoye Vremya) was a period of Russian history comprising the years of interregnum between the death of the last of the Moscow Rurikids, Tsar Feodor Ivanovich in 1598 and the establishment of the Romanov Dynasty in 1613.
Time of Troubles (Forgotten Realms) The Time of Troubles, also known as the Arrival, Godswar, and Avatar Crisis, was a cataclysmic time period in the chronology of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting. Taking place during the Year of Shadows, 1358 DR, the Time of Troubles was a period during which the gods of Faerûn were forced to walk the earth in their mortal avatar forms.
Time of Useful Consciousness Time of useful consciousness (TUC) is defined as the amount of time an individual is able to perform flying duties efficiently in an environment of inadequate oxygen supply. It is the period of time from the interruption of the oxygen supply or exposure to an oxygen-poor environment to the time when useful function is lost.
Time of Your Life (ring tone) "Time of Your Life" is a ringtone written and produced by American singer Mariah Carey and James "Big Jim" Wright for Carey's exclusive contract with Pepsi. It was released as a promotional single in order to promote Pepsi's summer ringtones on May 15, 2006.
Time offset A time offset is defined by international convention as a number of hours and minutes from Coordinated Universal Time in Greenwich, England. Many time zones employ two time offsets, one for standard time and one for summer (see Daylight saving).
Time on (Australian rules football) Time on in Australian Football League (AFL) is the portion of each quarter allocated for extra play which could not occur due to time being stopped. Each quarter goes for a specific length (which can vary in different forms of the game, but generally 20 minutes).
Time Out (chocolate) A Time Out is a snack consisting of two wafer fingers covered in chocolate, similar in concept to a Twix. Unlike the Twix however, the Time Out is on a wafer base (not biscuit), has no caramel and the chocolate coating is smooth.
Time portal Time portals are often employed in various fictional genres, such as Sci-Fi and Fantasy. They can be represented as vortices of energy, which allow matter to travel from one point in time to another by passing through the portal, or may appears as an ordinary doorway.
Time preference Time preference is the economist's assumption that a consumer will place a premium on enjoyment nearer in time over more remote enjoyment. A high time preference means a person wants to spend their money now and not save it, whereas a low time preference means a person might want to save their money as well.
Time projection chamber In physics, a time projection chamber is a particle detector consisting of a gas-filled cylindrical chamber with multiwire proportional chambers (MWPC) as endplates. Along its length, the chamber is divided into halves by means of a central high voltage electrode disc, which establishes an electric field between the center and the endplates.
Time resolved photon emission prober The Time-Resolved Photon Emission Prober (TRPE) is an instrument which is used to measure timing waveforms on semiconductor devices. TRPE measurements are performed on the back side of the semiconductor device.
Time Reading Program The Time Reading Program, often abbreviated to TRP, was a book club by Time Magazine from 1961 through 1966. Although Time as a publisher is best known for its magazines and nonfiction series books published under Time-Life, the TRP books followed no specific theme but covered literature both classic and contemporary, as well as nonfiction works and historic topics.
Time Requiem Time Requiem is a Swedish neoclassical, progressive metal band. Spiritual father of the band, Richard Andersson created the band in the summer of 2001, when he felt that his previous project - Majestic - was on a dead end.
Time scale calculus In mathematics, time scale calculus is a unification of the theory of difference equations and standard calculus. Discovered in 1988 by the German mathematician Stefan Hilger, it has applications in any field that requires simultaneous modelling of discrete and continuous data.
Time series In statistics and signal processing, a time series is a sequence of data points, measured typically at successive times, spaced at (often uniform) time intervals. Time series analysis comprises methods that attempt to understand such time series, often either to understand the underlying theory of the data points (where did they come from?
Time series database A time series database server (TSDS) is a software system that is optimized for handling a time series. In this context, a time series is an associative array of numbers indexed by a datetime or a datetime range.
Time served In criminal law, "time served" describes a sentence where the defendant is credited immediately after the guilty verdict with the time spent in remand awaiting trial. The time is usually subtracted from the sentence, with only the balance being served after the verdict.
Time shifting Time shifting is the recording of programming to a storage medium to be viewed or listened to at a time more convenient to the consumer. Typically, this refers to TV programming but can also refer to radio shows via podcasts.
Time signature The time signature (also known as "meter signature") is a notational convention used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats are in each bar and what note value constitutes one beat. Time signatures indicate meter, but do not necessarily determine it.
Time standard A time standard is a specification or standard of either the rate at which time passes, or points in time, or both. For example, the standard for civil time specifies both standard time intervals and time-of-day.
Time stream The normal passage or flow of time, and its historical developments, within a given dimension of reality. The concept of the time stream, and the ability to travel within and around it, are the fundamentals of a genre of science fiction.
Time Share Tours A vacation timeshare tour is a form of advertising used by many timeshare resorts to encourage individuals to consider purchasing a timeshare. Most timeshare tours consist of an approximately 90-minute sales presentation of a timeshare resort or sales center, guided by a salesperson, an offer of some sort of snack or meal, and ending with one or more salespeople (and often the sales manager) encouraging and even pressuring for a purchase.
Time Slave Time Slave is a 1975 hybrid of historical fiction and science fiction by philosopher John Norman. In this book, Norman presents his personal theories of human evolution, exemplified by the case of a modern woman sent back in time twenty thousand years or more; he mourns the loss of human evolutionary fitness and distortion of "natural" social relations which in his view occurred when farming spread, and farmers squeezed hunter/gatherers to the ecological margins.
Time Squad Time Squad is an American animated television series created in 2001 by David Wasson, following the adventures of a trio of hapless "time cops" from the year 100,000,000 AD, who travel back in time attempting to correct the course of history.
Time Stalkers Time Stalkers is a Sega Dreamcast role-playing game, a spin-off of the popular Sega Genesis game Landstalker (as well as the Japan-only Lady Stalker). The player initially takes the role of Sword, a character caught in a world made of many worlds.
Time Stands Still Time Stands Still is a 1982 movie about two brothers and the woman they both love, all living in Budapest during the uprisings of the 1960's. It stars Istvan Znamenak, Henrik Pauer, Aniko Ivan and was directed by Peter Gothar
Time to digital converter In electronic instrumentation and signal processing, a time to digital converter (abbreviated TDC) is a device for converting a signal of sporadic pulses into a digital representation of their time indices. In other words, a TDC outputs the time of arrival for each incoming pulse.
Time to Fly Time to Fly was the first full-length album from Toronto-based rock band Sea of Green, released on the Music Cartel label in 2001. The album was produced by famed 70's producer Nick Blagona who has worked with the likes of Deep Purple, The Police, and Rush amongst others.
Time tracking software Time tracking software or timesheet software is accounting software which is used to maintain timesheets for each person in a company. Such software allows employees to enter their time, which can be approved/rejected by supervisors or project managers.
Time transfer Time transfer describes methods for transferring reference clock synchronization from one point to another, often over long distances. Radio-based navigation systems are frequently used as time transfer systems.
Time travel Time travel is the concept of moving backwards or forwards to different points in time, in a manner analogous to moving through space. Additionally, some interpretations of time travel suggest the possibility of travel between parallel realities or universes.
Time trial In many racing sports an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. In cycling, for example, a time trial (TT) can be a single track cycling event, or an individual or team time trial on the road, and either or both of the latter may form components of multi-day stage races.
Time Team Time Team is a popular British television series explaining the process of archaeology for the layman in the UK. Broadcast by Channel 4, the programme was first shown in 1994, and is presented by Tony Robinson.
Time To Fly Time To Fly is a rock band based around Port Orchard, Washington and the greater Seattle area. It is consisted of four members: Tyler Lewis (Vocals/Guitar), Kyle Buckingham (Bass), Danny Lewis (Drums), and David Nichols (Guitar/Vocals).
Time Traveler (video game) Time Traveler or Hologram Time Traveler was a stereographic FMV arcade game released in 1991 by Sega. It utilized a special arcade cabinet produced by Sega that projected the game's characters in a stereogram.
Time Traveler Convention The Time Traveler Convention was a convention held at MIT on May 7, 2005, in the hopes of making contact with time travelers from the future. The convention was organized by Amal Dorai with help from current and former residents of the MIT living group Pi Tau Zeta.
Time Trumpet Time Trumpet was a six-episode television comedy series which aired on BBC Two during Summer 2006. The first full show was broadcast on Thursday 3 August 2006 at 10pm; a 10 minute preview had been broadcast two weeks earlier.
Time viewer The Time viewer is a fictional device often used in science fiction. It is usually a device which functions along the same lines as a television, except that the picture depicts events in another time, either the past or the future.
Time Variance Authority The Time Variance Authority (or TVA) is an extra-dimensional organization that monitors and controls time travel in the fictional Marvel Universe. The TVA has the appearance of late 20th Century Earth officeworkers.
Time warp The terms time warp, space warp and time-space warp are commonly used in science fiction. They sometimes refer to Einstein's theory that time and space form a continuum which bends, folds or warps from the observer's point of view, relative to such factors as movement or gravitation, but are also used in reference to more fantastic notions of discontinuities or other irregularities in spacetime not based on real-world science.
Time War (Doctor Who) The Time War is an event referred to on several occasions in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, beginning from its revival in 2005. The conflict was between the Time Lords and the Daleks and resulted in their mutual destruction.
Time Warner Center The Time Warner Center is a mixed-used skyscraper in New York City. Its design, by David Childs and Mustafa Kemal Abadan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, consists of two 229 m (750 ft) towers bridged by a multi-story atrium containing upscale retail shops.
Time Warner Telecom Time Warner Telecom is a United States Internet Service Provider, primarily targeting business and government customers. Time Warner Telecom began as a part of the cable television provider Time Warner Cable, but has been a separate company since 1998.
Time Warp The Time Warp is a dance featured in the cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, performed during the chorus of the song of the same name. The song is both an example and a parody of the dance song genre in which much of the content of the song is given over to dance step instructions.
Time Warp Trio (TV series) Time Warp Trio is an animated television series based on the books written by Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith. The show airs on Discovery Kids but also aired on a two-hour block called Discovery Kids on NBC which was discontinued on September 2, 2006.
Time Warped Time Warped was a failed historic satire TV series created by future South Park creator Trey Parker in 1995. The series consisted of two pilot episodes - a musical version of Aaron and Moses's quest to free the Hebrews and a prehistoric love story between a Homo erectus and a Australopithecus.
Time Will Tell (album) Time Will Tell is the title of the album by late rapper Proof, which is to be released between February and March of 2007. Proof recorded all the songs on the album in less than 24 hours, after being challenged by one of his friends.
Time zone A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. Most adjacent time zones are exactly one hour apart, and by convention compute their local time as an offset from Greenwich Mean Time (see also UTC).
Time Zero Time Zero is a BBC Books original novel written by Justin Richards and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji and introduces a new companion, Trix.
Time Zone (computer game) Time Zone is a multi-disk graphical adventure game written and directed by Roberta Williams for the Apple II. Released in 1982 by On-Line Systems (now Sierra Entertainment), the game was shipped with six double sided floppy disks and contained 1,500 areas (screens) to explore along with 39 scenarios to solve.
Time's Arrow (TNG episode) "Time’s Arrow" is the 26th episode of the fifth season of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. A two-part episode of Star Trek: TNG, the first episode was a cliffhanger season finale for the fifth season and the second episode a premiere for the sixth.
Time-based pricing Time-based pricing refers to a type offer or contract by a provider of a service or supplier of a commodity, in which the price depends on the time when the service is provided or the commodity is delivered. The rational background of time-based pricing is expected or observed change of the supply and demand balance during time.
Time-bin encoding Time-bin encoding is a technique used in Quantum information science to encode a qubit of information on a photon. Quantum information science makes use of qubits as a basic resource similar to bits in classical computing.
Time-delay combination locks A time-delay combination lock is a combination lock equipped with a delay timer that delays the actual unlocking of the combination lock by a preset delay, usually less than one hour. Unlike the time lock, which unlocks at a preset time and must be manually reset daily to a new time (as in the case of a bank vault), time-delay locks operate at any given time, but the operator must wait for several minutes to elapse before the lock actually unlocks.
Time-division multiplexing Time-division multiplexing (TDM) is a type of digital or (rarely) analog multiplexing in which two or more signals or bit streams are transferred apparently simultaneously as sub-channels in one communication channel, but physically are taking turns on the channel. The time domain is divided into several recurrent timeslots of fixed length, one for each sub-channel.
Time-domain reflectometer A time-domain reflectometer (TDR) is an electronic instrument used to characterize and locate faults in metallic cables (for example, twisted wire pairs, coaxial cables) and, in the OTDR domain: optical fibers.
Time-Flight Time-Flight is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from March 22 to March 30, 1982. Companion Tegan Jovanka, played by Janet Fielding, leaves the Fifth Doctor for the first time at the end of this serial.
Time-lapse Time-lapse photography is a cinematography technique whereby each film frame is captured at a rate much slower than it will be played back. When replayed at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing.
Time-Life Building The Time-Life Building, located at 1271 Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue} in Rockefeller Center in New York is an historically important building opened in 1959 and designed by the Rockefeller family's architect Wallace Harrison, of Harrison, Abramovitz, and Harris.
Time-Limited Error Recovery Time-Limited Error Recovery (TLER) is a solution designed by Western Digital that allows SATA hard disks to be used with RAID controllers. This feature will prevent a disk from being marked failed by limiting the time spent on correcting detected errors caused by vibrations during high loads.
Time-of-flight The Time of flight (TOF) method of measuring particle mass-to-charge ratio is done as follows. An ion of known electrical charge and unknown mass enters a mass spectrometer and is accelerated by an electrical field of known strength.
Time-of-check-to-time-of-use A time-of-check-to-time-of-use bug (TOCTTOU − pronounced "TOCK too") is a software bug caused by changes in a system between the checking of a condition (such as a security credential) and the use of the results of that check. It is a kind of race condition.
Time-point In music a time-point (point in time) is the beginning of a sound, rather than its duration. In serial music a time point set, proposed by Milton Babbitt (1962), is a temporal order of pitches in a tone row which indicates the instants at which the notes start.
Time-resolved spectroscopy In physics and physical chemistry, time-resolved spectroscopy is the study of dynamical processes in materials or chemical compounds by means of spectroscopic techniques. Most often, processes are studied that occur after illumination of a material, but in principle, the technique can be applied to any process which leads to a change in properties of a material.

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