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time scramble

time scramble noun: a situation in which one or both players have very little remaining time on their clocks, therefore increasing the chance of inaccuracies or blunders being played as well as the risk of flagging.

Noun

time scramble (plural time scrambles)

  1. A situation in which one or both players have very little remaining time on their clocks, therefore increasing the chance of inaccuracies or blunders being played as well as the risk of flagging.

Forms of time scramble

pluraltime scrambles

Questions about time scramble

What does time scramble mean?
Time scramble means a situation in which one or both players have very little remaining time on their clocks, therefore increasing the chance of inaccuracies or blunders being played as well as the risk of flagging.
What part of speech is time scramble?
Time scramble is a noun.
What is the plural of time scramble?
The plural of time scramble is time scrambles.

Words near time scramble in the dictionary

  1. time reversals
  2. time sampling
  3. time samplings
  4. time scale
  5. time scales
  6. time scramble
  7. time scrambles
  8. time section
  9. time sections
  10. time sense
  11. time series

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