time value

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noun

music the duration of a given printed note relative to other notes in a composition or section and considered in relation to the basic tempoOften shortened to: time Also called: note value

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Words nearby time value

time switch, timetable, time-tested, time travel, time trial, time value, time warp, time was, time will tell, timework, timeworn

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How to use time value in a sentence

The other is what economists call the "time value of money": a dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow.
"Tax Breaks for Corporate Jets": The Non-Issue at the Heart of the Presidential Agenda|Megan McArdle|April 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The Report does furnish the time value of ten of the principal crops and of bituminous coal.
Twentieth Century Socialism|Edmond Kelly
As the disparity in numerical constitution increases, so will also the divergence in time-value of the two groups concerned.
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1|Various
When a secondary element is absent its place must be supplied by a rest of equivalent time-value.
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1|Various

Not news items, necessarily, mostly rewrites and things that had no special time value.
Joan of the Journal|Helen Diehl Olds
One who can do these things is prepared to find the answer to the problem of time-value.
The Principles of Economics|Frank A. Fetter