time-sharing

[ tahym-shair-ing ]

noun
  1. Computers. a system or service in which a number of users at different terminals simultaneously use a single computer for different purposes.

  2. Also time-share. a plan in which persons share ownership or rental costs of a vacation home, especially a condominium, entitling each participant to use the residence for a specified time each year.

Origin of time-sharing

1
First recorded in 1960–65

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British Dictionary definitions for time sharing

time sharing

noun
    • a system of part ownership of a property, such as a flat or villa, for use as a holiday home, whereby each participant buys the right to use the property for the same fixed period annually

    • (as modifier): a time-sharing system

    • a system by which users at different terminals of a computer can, because of its high speed, apparently communicate with it at the same time: Compare batch processing

    • (as modifier): a time-sharing computer

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