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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A period during which something takes place or is projected to occur: "a start of deployment in the 1993 time frame” ( Harold Brown).

Wiktionary

  1. n. the period of time during which something is expected to occur, or does occur

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a time period during which something occurs or is expected to occur

Etymologies

  1. From time + frame. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “While Metellus Piggle-wiggle was trailing around the courts behind Cassius Ravilla and learning how to secure condemnations of Vestal Virgins — well, I mean it in an apocryphal sense only, the time frame is quite wrong — I was soldiering.”

    The First Man in Rome

  • “The next investigatory step was a complete paper chase: men capable of making dentures cross-probed against “tall, middle-aged,” “grayhaired,” “O+ blood” and time frame opportunity.”

    The Big Nowhere

  • “The frequently long time frame between getting a vaccine and developing autoantibodies as a result can make it hard to cast such associations as cause and effect.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Autoimmune Epidemic

  • “Danny flipped forward, finding a meeting on 1/4/50, the same people in attendance during the time frame of the Wiltsie/Lindenaur killings, the same strange crossout, the same boring topics discussed.”

    The Big Nowhere

  • “In another paper, the Geiers referred to figures for the total number of vaccines distributed during a given time frame as if they were the total number of vaccines that had actually been administered.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Panic Virus

  • “Involvement with family traditions and regular family contact contribute both to developing a positive-past time frame and to shaping a more viable vision of the future.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Time Paradox

  • “It was a by-the-book statement for which search-and-rescue leaders sometimes use the acronym LAST—for locate, access, stabilize, and transport—with a necessarily ambitious time frame to have me out of the wilderness in the first ten hours.”

    Simon & Schuster: 127 Hours

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