simple past tense and past participle of play for time

(chess) A situation in which one or both players have very little remaining time on their clocks, therefore increasing the chance of inaccuracies or blunders being played as well as the risk of flagging.

For a nuclear bomb, the time it takes to go from barely critical to optimally critical. It is generally much shorter for an implosion bomb than for a gun-type bomb.

plural of time-lapse

(rare) Synonym of game over in the case where the player has exceeded a time limit.

(simile) Very mysterious or enigmatic.

(law, formal, idiomatic) The determination of a term of years due to the passage of time, rather than the occurrence of a specific event.

plural of time-piece

Alternative spelling of timepiece

plural of time in