"waiting time" meaning in All languages combined

See waiting time on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: waiting times [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} waiting time (countable and uncountable, plural waiting times)
  1. (computing, computer hardware) The total amount of time in which a process spends in a ready queue before it reaches the CPU. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Computer hardware, Computing Synonyms: wait time

Inflected forms

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