"Elon time" meaning in English

See Elon time in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: From Elon Musk's overly optimistic projections of launch/completion dates. Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} Elon time (uncountable)
  1. (automotive, astronautics, journalism) An estimated time of arrival (ETA), that is exceedingly optimistic, needing to be doubled or tripled to arrive at a reasonable estimate. Used by journalists, editorialists, and fans, concerning the ETAs of milestones and products from commecial spacelaunch provider SpaceX and electric car maker Tesla Motors; as well as other endeavours of Elon Musk. Wikipedia link: en:Elon Musk Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Astronautics, Automotive, Elon Musk, Mass media, Time Related terms: reality distortion field

Download JSON data for Elon time meaning in English (3.0kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "From Elon Musk's overly optimistic projections of launch/completion dates.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Elon time (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Astronautics",
          "orig": "en:Astronautics",
          "parents": [
            "Applied sciences",
            "Space",
            "Sciences",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Automotive",
          "orig": "en:Automotive",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Elon Musk",
          "orig": "en:Elon Musk",
          "parents": [
            "Individuals",
            "People",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Mass media",
          "orig": "en:Mass media",
          "parents": [
            "Culture",
            "Media",
            "Society",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Time",
          "orig": "en:Time",
          "parents": [
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An estimated time of arrival (ETA), that is exceedingly optimistic, needing to be doubled or tripled to arrive at a reasonable estimate. Used by journalists, editorialists, and fans, concerning the ETAs of milestones and products from commecial spacelaunch provider SpaceX and electric car maker Tesla Motors; as well as other endeavours of Elon Musk."
      ],
      "id": "en-Elon_time-en-noun-27Odx4yl",
      "links": [
        [
          "automotive",
          "automotive"
        ],
        [
          "astronautics",
          "astronautics"
        ],
        [
          "journalism",
          "journalism"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(automotive, astronautics, journalism) An estimated time of arrival (ETA), that is exceedingly optimistic, needing to be doubled or tripled to arrive at a reasonable estimate. Used by journalists, editorialists, and fans, concerning the ETAs of milestones and products from commecial spacelaunch provider SpaceX and electric car maker Tesla Motors; as well as other endeavours of Elon Musk."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "reality distortion field"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "aerospace",
        "astronautics",
        "automotive",
        "business",
        "engineering",
        "journalism",
        "media",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "transport",
        "vehicles"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "en:Elon Musk"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Elon time"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From Elon Musk's overly optimistic projections of launch/completion dates.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Elon time (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "reality distortion field"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Astronautics",
        "en:Automotive",
        "en:Elon Musk",
        "en:Mass media",
        "en:Time"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An estimated time of arrival (ETA), that is exceedingly optimistic, needing to be doubled or tripled to arrive at a reasonable estimate. Used by journalists, editorialists, and fans, concerning the ETAs of milestones and products from commecial spacelaunch provider SpaceX and electric car maker Tesla Motors; as well as other endeavours of Elon Musk."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "automotive",
          "automotive"
        ],
        [
          "astronautics",
          "astronautics"
        ],
        [
          "journalism",
          "journalism"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(automotive, astronautics, journalism) An estimated time of arrival (ETA), that is exceedingly optimistic, needing to be doubled or tripled to arrive at a reasonable estimate. Used by journalists, editorialists, and fans, concerning the ETAs of milestones and products from commecial spacelaunch provider SpaceX and electric car maker Tesla Motors; as well as other endeavours of Elon Musk."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "aerospace",
        "astronautics",
        "automotive",
        "business",
        "engineering",
        "journalism",
        "media",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "transport",
        "vehicles"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "en:Elon Musk"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Elon time"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.