time code

British  

noun

1. (on video or audio tape) a separate track on which time references are continually recorded in digital form as an aid to editing

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Example Sentences

The slate lights up with a digital time code.

From Los Angeles Times

"The recent increase in bed bug infestation around the world is likely due to increase in the number of human hosts, hence with blood meals, their populations increase massively within short period of time," Code said.

From Salon

At the time, code was handwritten until it was transferred onto a “keypunch card,” which was then fed into a mainframe computer.

From Slate

Similarly, interracial romances ⁠— for a long time code for "one white person and one person of color"⁠ — are becoming more diverse in themselves, with appetite growing for interracial romances that don't centre a white character at all.

From Salon

They became so fluent in that tongue that today they have a hard time code switching, and de-drawling, even when addressing their supposed liberal base.

From Salon