The process, made possible by technological innovations in transportation and communication, by which distant places are brought closer together in terms of the time taken to travel (or send messages) between them.

Now is an appropriate time to take a particular action.

(medicine) A test used to assess the ability of a person's blood to clot, carried out by cutting the skin and measuring the time it takes for the resulting bleeding to stop.

The primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. / A high-precision atomic time standard.

Slowly and steadily, without rushing.

(idiomatic) To become successful and widely known.

(US, dated derogatory slang, sometimes reclaimed) A notional system of time (or time zone) which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to African Americans, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be tardy.

A person purchasing a house for the first time, as opposed to one who already owns a house and is selling it in order to buy another. / A person who purchases something for the first time.

The timezone that encompasses the East Coast of the United States, and parts of Canada during the spring and summer; it is four hours behind Greenwich Mean Time, and one hour ahead of Eastern Standard Time.

Extremely frenetic, disorderly and messy.