timeslot
Syllables: time·slot
timeslot noun: a conventionally defined time interval in a schedule.
Noun
timeslot (plural timeslots)
- A conventionally defined time interval in a schedule.
- Prime-time television has two- to four-hour-long timeslots.
- At the peak of its success, the show drew 3.9 million viewers per week to its Sunday night timeslot.2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment
Verb
timeslot (third-person singular simple present timeslots, present participle timeslotting, simple past and past participle timeslotted)
- To allocate to one or more timeslots.
Forms of timeslot
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | timeslots |
| alternative form | time-slot |
| alternative form | time slot |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | timeslots |
| present participle | timeslotting |
| past participle | timeslotted |
| past | timeslotted |
Origin of timeslot
From time + slot.
Questions about timeslot
- What does timeslot mean?
- Timeslot means a conventionally defined time interval in a schedule.
- What part of speech is timeslot?
- Timeslot can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of timeslot?
- The plural of timeslot is timeslots.
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