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  • proper noun UK A nickname for the speaking clock.
  • initialism electronics Time Interval Meter.

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  • With the assistance of Support Vector Machine (SVM), the three descriptors were combined to obtain a new method with improved performance, which we call TIM-Finder.

    Random feeds from Syndic8.com 2009

  • TIM is developing new methods of payment that will enable customers to pay for content using the new SIM card.

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » The Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card 2005

  • We’ll all have to hold hands, read, and believe — in TIM, Defender of the Earth!

    John Joseph Adams » 2007 » November 2007

  • We’ll all have to hold hands, read, and believe — in TIM, Defender of the Earth!

    John Joseph Adams » Books Received 11/28/07 2007

  • Mr. Johnson's device, called TIM, as in "time is money," allows users to enter the number of people in the room and ballpark an average hourly wage.

    Mayor Wants Meetings on the Clock Michael Howard Saul 2011

  • They compared tissue and blood samples from women with ovarian cancer and women without it and found all of the women with ovarian cancer shared a specific gene called TIM-1.

    CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2008 2008

  • While the gurus were eager to buy up a basket of Latin American stocks, they were happy to cash in on TIM, which is up almost 150% since September.

    Gurus Go Abroad, Buy Hard Asset Plays Matt Rand 2006

  • The TIM is the leading alpha capture system used by institutional brokers to send long / short equity trade ideas to their hedge and quant fund and more traditional money manager clients, and for portfolio managers to easily demonstrate the value the sell-side provides by cutting through the flood of information and noise sent via emails and telephone calls.

    Bobsguide News 2009

  • SORCE carries an instrument called TIM (Total Irradiance Monitor) that measures just this, but it also includes another intrument called SIM, the Spectral Irradiance Monitor.

    Signs of the Times 2009

  • A new study shows that T cells in HIV-infected individuals express a protein called TIM-3, which inactivates their ... > read more

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