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noun

Movies. the length or duration, usually expressed in minutes, of a feature film: The running time of the average film is 90–100 minutes.

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Origin of running time

First recorded in 1950–55

Words nearby running time

running room, running start, running stitch, running story, running text, running time, running title, runny, Runnymede, runoff, run off at the mouth

How to use running time in a sentence

Models that can shred more at once also have more powerful motors with longer running times.
Best paper shredder to cut down sensitive papers|Stacey L. Nash|October 13, 2021|Popular-Science
A long running time, high capacity, and multimedia abilities work in offices where high volumes of sensitive information go to die.
Best paper shredder to cut down sensitive papers|Stacey L. Nash|October 13, 2021|Popular-Science
It’s a madcap experiment careening through its exhausting running time with all the recklessness of a cartoon villain piloting a Panther De Ville down winding London streets without knowing the gas from the brake.
Counterpoint: Disney’s Girlboss ‘Cruella’ Actually Rules|Kevin Fallon|May 28, 2021|The Daily Beast
The exponent on the eventual running time is fully dependent only on the number of multiplications.
Matrix Multiplication Inches Closer to Mythic Goal|Kevin Hartnett|March 23, 2021|Quanta Magazine

At a running time of 51 minutes, and with perhaps only half the numbers required for a full adaptation of the 2007 animated Oscar-winner, this “Ratatouille” is a mere appetizer.
Judy and Mickey would have loved the TikTok ‘Ratatouille’ — 2021’s answer to ‘Let’s put on a show!’|Peter Marks|January 2, 2021|Washington Post
Her character, Anne, spends most of the 127-minute running time in inexorable decline.
Oscar’s 85-Year-Old Darling: A Talk With Emmanuelle Riva of ‘Amour’|Tracy McNicoll|February 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And despite the occasional three-hour running time, it does matter.
Bollywood Didn’t Do It|Sujay Kumar|January 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
So for now, the movies are about more, even if many of us will grumble about Les Miz's running time on the way out of the theater.
Why Are 2012’s Holiday Movies So Damn Long?|Ramin Setoodeh|December 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The Avengers, the most successful movie of the year, had a running time of 143 minutes.
Why Are 2012’s Holiday Movies So Damn Long?|Ramin Setoodeh|December 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Twenty years ago, the average running time of the top-five grossing movies of the year was 118.4 minutes.
Why Are 2012’s Holiday Movies So Damn Long?|Ramin Setoodeh|December 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Hence there would still be forty-one minutes running time to be divided between the eastbound train and the westbound engine.
The Wreckers|Francis Lynde
On her return trip, she reached New York in thirty hours running time—exactly five miles per hour.
Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century|Charles Morris
These accidents are estimated to cost at most a loss of a few percent of the running time.
On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969|H. W. Fulbright et al.
This, added to the fifteen of actual running time, would still give him a comfortable margin of forty-eight hours.
Bert Wilson's Twin Cylinder Racer|J. W. Duffield
Deducting the time used for stops the actual running time would average sixty miles an hour.
The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad|Edward Hungerford