timeslot

time·slot
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noun

A conventionally defined time interval in a schedule.

“Prime-time television has two- to four-hour-long timeslots.”

UncommonScrabble 10

Meanings

nountimeslot (plural timeslots)

plural timeslots · alternative time-slot · alternative time slot

  1. A conventionally defined time interval in a schedule.

    Prime-time television has two- to four-hour-long timeslots.

    1 more example

    At the peak of its success, the show drew 3.9 million viewers per week to its Sunday night timeslot.

    2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment
verbtimeslot (third-person singular simple present timeslots, present participle timeslotting, simple past and past participle timeslotted)

present singular third person timeslots · participle present timeslotting · participle past timeslotted · past timeslotted · alternative time-slot · alternative time slot

  1. transitiveTo allocate to one or more timeslots.

Origin

Translations

Dutch tijdvenster, tijdslot
  • tijdvensterTranslations
  • tijdslotTranslations
  • tijdblokTranslations
Esperanto tempo-bloko
  • tempo-blokoTranslations
French créneau
  • créneauTranslations
German Zeitschlitz
  • ZeitschlitzTranslations
Russian тайм-слот
  • тайм-слот (tajm-slot)Translations
Spanish franja horaria, intervalo temporal
  • franja horariaTranslations
  • intervalo temporalTranslations
  • periodo horarioTranslations
  • período temporalTranslations
Turkish zaman aralığı
  • zaman aralığıTranslations
Cite this entry
APA

timeslot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/timeslot

MLA

“timeslot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/timeslot. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “timeslot,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/timeslot.

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