deadtime

plural deadtimes · alternative dead time

1. countableuncountableThe time between a change in a signal and the response to that change.
2. countableuncountableThe time, after an event, during which a system cannot respond to a second event.
3. slanguncountableThe serving of a prison sentence.

   And I'll tell you something else, if you weren't a cop, I'd have you doin’ dead-time at Leavenworth, for life!

   1994, Danilo Bach, Daniel Petrie Jr, Steven E. de Souza, Beverly Hills Cop III, spoken by Steve Fulbright (Stephen McHattie)