time-sharingn.
/ˈtʌɪmˌʃɛːrɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈtaɪmˌʃɛrɪŋ/ 1. Broadcasting. The use of a frequency for transmission by more than one radio station at different times by prior agreement. Now rare.
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1929 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 142 56 Such time sharing of assignments will be necessary in States and localities where the number of licensed stations exceeds the number of ‘assignments’ available.
1942 F. S. Chase Sound & Fury i. 12 Because many of them [sc. radio stations] were broadcasting on the same frequencies, time-sharing became a common practice.
1954 Proc. Inst. Electr. Engineers 101 iii. 254/2 It may be advisable for each station to have an individual and readily recognizable programme and for there to be some time sharing.
1969 [see Compounds 1]. 2.
a. Electronics. The automatic allocation of a circuit or device to two or more signals in turn, or of a signal to two or more devices; (more widely) the automatic alternation of two or more processes or procedures.
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1947 U.S. Patent 2,430,296 7 The receiving system has utility in effecting time sharing between several signal sources positioned at different geographical points.
1958 Trans. Amer. Inst. Electr. Engineers 76 730/2 The use of a relay allows time-sharing of the clutch drive circuit.
1970 U.S. Patent 3,542,957 2 This time sharing may be accomplished..by the circuit shown.., which is designed to be connected at the transmitter for inserting the multiplexed data into the pulse train.
2004 W. Ciciora et al. Mod. Cable Television Technol. (ed. 2) xvii. 710 A network able to do this incorporates a form of time sharing..whereby a user is granted full-time use of a video stream for the duration of his or her use, after which the capacity is freed up for other users.
b. Computing. The automatic sharing of (central) processor time so that a computer can serve two or more users or devices concurrently, switching between them automatically at very short intervals so that each user has the impression of continuous exclusive use.
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society > computing and information technology > software > [noun] > operating systems software > time-sharing
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1953 Digital & Analog Computers (Amer. Soc. Mech. Engineers) 41 ‘Time-sharing’ can be relatively simple. Nearly all the machines have convenient features for changing the problems easily.
1965 Math. in Biol. & Med. (Med. Res. Council) 295 Without time-sharing, the ‘on-line’ use of a fast modern machine would be unthinkably costly.
1992 D. Morgan Rising in West iii. xvi. 290 Mapson had the church's bookkeeping computerized on two main-frame computer terminals, which he set up at Peoples Foundation and at Fresno airport, to facilitate time-sharing with paying customers.
2000 G. J. Lipovski Embedded Microcontroller Interfacing vii. 285 The third section shows how time sharing can be used with the Ariel operating system.
3. Originally U.S. The use of a property, esp. a holiday home, by several joint owners at specified times each year.Recorded earliest in attributive use.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [noun] > right to use property for fixed time annually
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1972 Los Angeles Times 1 Oct. k15/2 A new ‘time-sharing ownership’ program for waterfront condominiums at Lake Tahoe.
1977 Detroit Free Press 11 Dec. 17 c/1 Time-sharing..is proving to be a popular concept for vacations.
1980 Country Life 27 Nov. 2038/3 The concept of time-sharing (that is, buying an annual choice of weeks in a holiday home instead of buying the home outright).
2011 Lodging Hospitality (Nexis) 26 Apr. To convince existing unit owners to allow conversion to timesharing or to sell their units.
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C1. attributive with reference to sense 1. Now rare.
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1939 Federal Reporter 2nd Ser. 105 794/2 Under an existing time-sharing agreement, KSD has about 80 per cent and KFUO about 20 per cent of the broadcast time.
1949 U.S. Patent 2,478,920 6 It is important to locate the time sharing transmitters which are in the same service area and on the same frequency as nearly as possible at the same location.
1969 Salina (Kansas) Jrnl. 20 Aug. 13/1 The change is affected from a new time-sharing agreement with WIBW of Topeka, co-licensed on 380 kilocycles.
C2. attributive with reference to sense 2.
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1948 Sci. News Let. 4 Sept. 158/2 Samples from 100 different speech channels may be transmitted over the same channel on a time-sharing basis.
1958 U.S. Patent 2,855,589 2 The video time sharing circuit..effectively acts as a switching device such that alternate frames of television video information..are applied to and modulate the reading beam.
1964 Discovery Oct. 56/2 The advent of time-sharing machines.
1974 Datamation Jan. 57/1 A ‘Trojan Horse’ technique was used to compromise the security of a campus time-sharing computer system.
2003 A. Gumaste & T. Antony DWDM Network Designs i. 36 Interleaving pulses of different signals share a single channel, on a time-sharing basis.
2010 K. A. Lambert Fund. Python x. 394 Time-sharing systems are still in widespread use in the form of Web servers..and other kinds of networked systems.
C3. attributive. Designating the ownership of property by time-sharing (sense 3), property owned in this manner, etc.
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1972Time-sharing ownership [see sense 3].
1972 Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Indiana) 16 Nov. 17/2 Other similar ‘time-sharing ownership’ condominium developments are now planned in Flagstaff, Ariz.; Acapulco, Mexico; and Maui in Hawaii.
1976 Time 30 Aug. 67 In exchange for guaranteed occupancy over an extended period time-sharing resorts offer low prices, [etc.].
1989 Observer 25 June (Colour Suppl.) 39/2 This goes some way towards explaining another great countryside clash, that over time-sharing leisure complexes.
2008 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 27 Feb. In 2006, the Consumer Association of Singapore received 1,435 car-related complaints—only time-sharing schemes drew more complaints.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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