Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A technique permitting many users simultaneous access to a central computer through remote terminals.
- noun An ownership interest in a piece of property that entitles the owner to occupy it for a specific period of time each year, or a lease or license agreement that grants a party use and occupancy of a property for a specific time period each year.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
joint ownership orlease of aproperty by multiple people who can only use it for specified periods each year. - noun computing A
technique that allows manyusers to use acentral computer simultaneously throughremote terminals . - verb Present participle of
time-share .
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Examples
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Later, Mr. McCarthy became an architect of computer time-sharing.
Computer Scientist Coined 'Artificial Intelligence' Stephen Miller 2011
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While in some sense this is not so different from time-sharing, enterprises can now handle bursts in demand for core services, not just for analytics.
Eric K. Clemons: Introduction to Cloud Computing Eric K. Clemons 2011
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O'Reilly Media: How would you describe the kind of products or services that lend themselves to time-sharing?
It's A Time-Sharing World Dale Dougherty 2010
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Computers and the Internet: A 1999 study, "Funding a Revolution: Government Support of for Computing Research," stated, "Federal funding not only financed development of most of the nation's early digital computers, but also has continued to enable breakthroughs in areas as wide ranging as computer time-sharing, the Internet, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality as the industry has matured."
William Lazonick: Nine Government Investments That Made Us an Industrial Economic Leader William Lazonick 2011
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Now, time-sharing often reminds us of vacation condos, but I was reminded that the Unix Operating System was called a time-sharing system.
It's A Time-Sharing World Dale Dougherty 2010
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O'Reilly Media: How would you describe the kind of products or services that lend themselves to time-sharing?
It's A Time-Sharing World Dale Dougherty 2010
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Now, time-sharing often reminds us of vacation condos, but I was reminded that the Unix Operating System was called a time-sharing system.
It's A Time-Sharing World Dale Dougherty 2010
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Republished with permission from O'Reilly Media from It's a time-sharing world.
It's A Time-Sharing World Dale Dougherty 2010
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Republished with permission from O'Reilly Media from It's a time-sharing world.
It's A Time-Sharing World Dale Dougherty 2010
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Germany, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg and the Netherlands have benefited from time-sharing programs among workers, which helped absorb the fall in gross domestic product from the financial crisis.
Joblessness Cited As Lingering Risk Riva Froymovich 2011
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