time-shiftedadj.
/ˈtʌɪmʃɪftᵻd/, U.S. /ˈtaɪmˌʃɪftᵻd/ 1. Moved forward or backward with regard to timing.
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1960 Science 18 Mar. 826/3 Displaced homing pigeons are misled in a predictable way if their ‘internal clock’ has been reset by exposure to a time-shifted sequence of day-night cycles.
1993 R. K. Young Wavelet Theory & Applic. v. 183 The system response to a time shifted version of the original input signal is a time shifted version of the output corresponding to the original input signal.
2007 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104 10245/1 The baseline for each pair was equal to the TE value obtained from time-shifted data.
2. Of or relating to a television broadcast recorded for later viewing; designating such a broadcast.
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1980 Jrnl. Communication 30 26 Households which..play back previously recorded programs can be considered a delayed or ‘time-shifted’ audience.
1989 Independent 7 Mar. 1/6 Households with videos did spend an estimated 10 per cent of their viewing time watching ‘time-shifted’ programmes.
2004 Media Week 4 May 20/4 Personal video recorders, which allow viewers to fast-forward through commercials during ‘time-shifted’ viewing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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