off time noun 5off-time adjective 2off-time adverb 1forms 2 noun5 •Time when one is not working.It was not the days of drudgery in the rice fields but the hours of off time that most shaped the contours of slave culture. — 1985 •Time when the activity of a business is diminished; off-season.Most would be completed during the “off time” of our year, i.e., when there was minimum usage by tourists. — 2011 •The time interval when no current flows.Usually, a clock waveform used in a system is a square wave. Occasionally, rectangular waveform may also be used. The time period T is the sum of the on time and off time. — 2007 •Time when the medication for a chronic condition is less effective in controlling symptoms.Frequently, the first "off" time is experienced after the longest delay between two doses of medication, which is usually between the last does in the evening and the first does in the morning. — 2012 •The point in time when the official starter signals that a race begins, as distinct from the time the race is scheduled to start (post time).That meant if you didn't bet on the off time posted on the infield board the race went off anyways. — 2009 off-time adjective2 •Occurring at a time other than the normal point in the process of growth and development.In the literature these "off-time" youngsters have been termed "early" and "late" developers (Petersen and Taylor, 1980). — 1987 •Out of sync; unsynchronized.Better, said he, were “marches with college tunes in the trio [final section] against the original themes” creating an amusing “off-key and off-time” agglomeration of sound (Ives, 1976, p.41). — 2013 off-time adverb1 •Occurring at a non-normal time.In general, those life events taking place early off-time have greater negative impact than those taking place late off-time. — 2014 formsoff times · off-times
