"time belt" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: time belts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} time belt (plural time belts)
  1. (broadcasting) A range of timeslots when scheduled programs can expect a certain type of audience, and for which advertisements pay a certain rate. Categories (topical): Broadcasting
    Sense id: en-time_belt-en-noun-Hs3T7HoZ Topics: broadcasting, media
  2. (science fiction) A belt that is worn to enable the wearer to travel through time. Categories (topical): Science fiction
    Sense id: en-time_belt-en-noun-EI~HYQwf Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
  3. Synonym of time period. Synonyms: time period [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-time_belt-en-noun-L-6Ajp~W
  4. Synonym of time zone. Synonyms: time zone [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-time_belt-en-noun-Qsy7UlBe
  5. (rare) Synonym of timing belt Tags: rare Synonyms: timing belt [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-time_belt-en-noun-LZ14djUY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 14 5 5 66 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 10 14 3 3 70 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 10 14 2 2 72

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1985, Paolo Mefalopoulos, Why Diversification of Programs?:",
          "text": "Both devote a large amount of time, in the fifth time belt, to news.",
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          "ref": "2016, Linus Nnabuike Malu, Media Law and Policy in Nigeria, page 121:",
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          "text": "Central Standard Time, the time of the 90th Meridian, is kept by all trains in the central time belt.",
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          "text": "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.",
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