time gap

plural time gaps

1. A time interval between two related events.

   there was a short time gap between the formation of the Ore Sequence host rocks and the actual deposition of the sulphides.

   2010, National Research Council Canada, National Research Council of Canada (contributors), Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, volume 47, numbers 10-12, page 1494

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   At the instant of any event, which it is desired to record, the circuit is broken by hand or otherwise, and a gap made in the line whose position between the two nearest time-gaps gives the time of the event.

   1880, James Edward Henry Gordon, A Physical Treatise on Eletricity and Magnetism, Volume 2, page 138

   The only breaches that can well be conceived to occur within the limits of a single mind would either be interruptions, time-gaps during which the consciousness went out altogether to come into existence again at a later moment;

   1890, William James, The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1, page 237

   each timer means including means for measuring the actual time gap between successive vehicles passing a selected position in each of the multiple traffic lanes of a "go" street, means for establishing an allowable time gap for such vehicular movement.

   1966, United States, Patent Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, volume 824, page 1171