time belt

noun5

1. •
   A range of timeslots when scheduled programs can expect a certain type of audience, and for which advertisements pay a certain rate.

   • 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. — 1973
2. •
   Synonym of time zone.

   • This explains what has determined the boundary lines of the time belts. — 1913
3. •
   A belt that is worn to enable the wearer to travel through time.

   • 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. — 1997
4. •
   Synonym of time period.

   • 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. — 2018
5. •
   (rare) Synonym of timing belt.

   • As they are traveling, the car hits a snag. The car gets as far as Manchester when the time belt breaks. — 2008