Definition of Running time

1. Noun. The length of time that a movie or tv show runs.

Generic synonyms: Period, Period Of Time, Time Period

Medical Definition of Running time

1. The time during which an activity (e.g., chromatography development) occurs. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Running Time

running pine
running play
running pop
running postman
running shoe
running shoes
running speech
running start
running stitch
running suit
running target
running text
running the gauntlet
running therapy
running through
running time (current term)
running title
running up
running up against
running up the score
running water
runningback
runningbacks
runningly
runnings
runnion
runnions
runny
runny nose
runny noses

Literary usage of Running time

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by New Jersey Civil Service Commission (1908)
"The running time between the college anil the river is 290 minutes; ... The running time is 30 minutes, and two care are required in operation. ..."

2. Accounts, Their Construction and Interpretation: Their Construction and by William Morse Cole (1908)
"It is clearly necessary, then, under any plan, to distinguish between occupancy and running time, for a job must pay for occupancy on two of our four groups ..."

3. Accounts, Their Construction and Interpretation: Their Construction and by William Morse Cole (1908)
"It is clearly necessary, then, under any plan, to distinguish between occupancy and running time, for a job must pay for occupancy on two of our four groups ..."

4. Accounts; Their Construction and Interpretation: For Business Men and by William Morse Cole (1915)
"The job order slips will show the occupied time and the running time. The idle time is, of course, simply the difference between the occupied time and the ..."

5. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1904)
"Tk> temperature of water in boiler at the time of lighting up, also at the drawing fires, actual running time, and time standing should be noted. ..."

6. Superheated Steam in Locomotive Service by William Freeman Myrick Goss (1910)
"The schedule of the first of these series provides six periods of running and five periods of standing, the duration of the running time being one-half the ..."

7. History of American Steam Navigation by John Harrison Morrison (1908)
"New York to Hudson; running time, 5 hours and 20 minutes. ... On June 7, 1881, made the run to Poughkeepsie in 3 hours and 33 minutes running time. ..."

8. Time Study and Job Analysis as Applied to Standardization of Methods and by William Otto Lichtner (1921)
"4 hours 40 minutes X 6 = 28 hours, total possible running time. 85% of 4 hours 40 minutes = 23 hours 48 minutes, total standard running time. ..."

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