time coden.
/ˈtʌɪm kəʊd/, U.S. /ˈtaɪm ˌkoʊd/ A code or signal representing the time of something; spec. a code or signal on a part of a recording or film representing the precise time at which that part was recorded. Also as a mass noun: coding in the form of such signals; information represented by such signals.
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1862 R. Bond Handbk. Telegr. 42 This is followed by your signalling the message prefix S, then the time code, and after that the number of words, the name and address of parties from and to, and then D Q.
1878 Nature 11 Apr. 461/2 A simple time-code is thus obtained, by which any hour or minute throughout the day can be expressed in from one to three letters.
1905 Telephony 10 428/1 On a trunk call being received, the call is immediately coded, that is, timed, the time being marked with the letters of the time-code system in use, on tickets printed and provided for the purpose.
1959 Adv. in Electronics & Electron Physics 11 191 Instrument data..are recorded on magnetic tape together with elapsed time codes and standard reference frequencies.
1970 Jrnl. Soc. Motion Picture & Television Engineers 79 203 A time code recorded in the cue track of video tape recordings may be utilized to search for points in the recordings at which edits are to be made.
1992 Videomaker Feb. 64/2 The easiest way to record time code is to put it on an audio track.
2007 I. McDonald Brasyl 4 The monitor was blank. She banged it. ‘What is wrong with this thing?’ The screen filled with pictures... ‘I need real-time time-code up on this.’
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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