"at a time" meaning in All languages combined

See at a time on Wiktionary

Prepositional phrase [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} at a time, {{en-PP}} at a time
  1. In a single, continuous period of time. Categories (topical): Time Synonyms: at one time, at the same time, simultaneously, together Synonyms (in a single, continuous period of time): in a row, at a stretch Derived forms: one at a time Translations (in a continuous period): ad gangen (Danish), tegelijk (Dutch), -ope (Esperanto), samtempe (Esperanto), kerrallaan (Finnish), à la fois (French), egyhuzamban (Hungarian), egyvégtében (Hungarian), megszakítás nélkül (Hungarian), alla volta (Italian), per volta (Italian), एका वेळीस (ekā veḷīs) (Marathi), za sebou (Slovak), po sebe (Slovak), naraz (Slovak), a la vez (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-at_a_time-en-prep_phrase-~jHITSxk Disambiguation of Time: 100 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Marathi translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Slovak translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Welsh translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 93 7 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 97 3 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 97 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 98 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 94 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 96 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 96 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 94 6 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 96 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 92 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 96 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Marathi translations: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 94 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovak translations: 94 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 97 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Welsh translations: 96 4 Disambiguation of 'in a single, continuous period of time': 99 1 Disambiguation of 'in a continuous period': 100 0
  2. Simultaneously at each occurrence (of some action). Synonyms (simultaneously at each occurrence): at once Translations (simultaneously): a la vegada (Catalan), ad gangen (Danish), samtempe (Esperanto), -esével (Hungarian), -asával (Hungarian), -osával (Hungarian), -ösével (Hungarian), naraz (Polish), por vez (Portuguese), naraz (Slovak), spolu (Slovak), a la vez (Spanish), i taget (Swedish), fesul (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-at_a_time-en-prep_phrase-9aUZ2-jM Categories (other): English terms with collocations Disambiguation of 'simultaneously at each occurrence': 4 96 Disambiguation of 'simultaneously': 0 100
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (4ba5975 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.