Meaning of time belt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A range of timeslots when scheduled programs can expect a certain type of audience, and for which advertisements pay a certain rate.
2. A belt that is worn to enable the wearer to travel through time.
3. Synonym of time period.
4. Synonym of time zone.
5. Synonym of timing belt.
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Examples

“The package rate is generally a total price for a schedule of spots at different time belts that costs less than the total of the rates for the individual spots making up the package.”

“Both devote a large amount of time, in the fifth time belt, to news.”

“7. A sponsored programmed shall only be broadcast during the time belt in which it is legal for the sponsor to advertise its products.”

“Prices for each of these vary based on length of time (duration) and the time belt (am, pm, fringe time, primetime) required.”

“I've set it for the year dot, as it were. I wonder how long ago that is? A million years? A billion? They will put the time belt on the creature and press the little button.”

“Lancaster explains to Kensington that Kensington must put on the Time Belt—it's set to take him back to the moment of the assassination and will automatically merge him back into the proper time stream.”

“The time belt was pretty much the same as all the others he'd worn, but it had no settings.”

“One of the most striking things about them is what a narrow time-belt so many of them were born into. Half of my chosen Movers were born within fifty years of each other, between 1710 and 1760.”

“This explains what has determined the boundary lines of the time belts.”

“It is found convenient generally to have a time belt fifteen degrees in width, that is to say the time belts generally include, each, fifteen degrees of longitude. Clocks at the two sides of such a time belt, keeping mean solar time, would be just one hour apart.”

“Central Standard Time, the time of the 90th Meridian, is kept by all trains in the central time belt.”

“Instead of a local time based upon the sun, it was necessary to have a conventional time belt, and to change abruptly by a whole hour when one entered the next time belt.”

“The powder falling tube automatic adjust device eliminates the gap between powder falling tube and time belt, so the quantity measurement of delivered powders is decided by the through hole size at the bottom of falling tube which guarantees delivering the pwders with accurate quantity.”

“As they are traveling, the car hits a snag. The car gets as far as Manchester when the time belt breaks.”

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