reference time (English, noun)
expansion: reference time (countable and uncountable, plural reference times)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: The moment in time near the beginning of switching that is chosen as a reference for the measurement of time in a digital computer.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
glosses: The moment in time in which the speaker is using as the imagined or explicit reference point for an utterance.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: reference times
tags: plural