Between-time

Quick meaning: Between-time is a noun meaning The period or time between two events; interim; meantime; meanwhile.

Meaning

The period or time between two events; interim; meantime; meanwhile.

Example Sentences

It relates to a recurrence in the dead time or the between-time separating inspiration and expiration, the diastole and systole of the heart beating softly against the lining of one's own skin.

Freedom itself ages; it is not eternal, though perhaps it brings us to a border between time and eternity. Ethical selving is in the between time, the interim of the aging of freedom. Freedom, of course, seems the catch cry of modernity.

Turning to the between regressions, the elasticity on fixed capital is particularly high (0.63) in the between-time […] The between-time estimate of capital of agricultural origin is significantly positive, though more modest in value (0.25).

In the case of the time of the event, by contrast, It is no longer time which is between two instants; it is the event which is a between-time [entre-temps, "meanwhile, meantime"]: the between-time is not of the eternal, but it is no longer (of) time, it is (of) becoming.

Word Forms

• between-times

Synonyms for between-time

Depending on context, synonyms include interim.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include in-between, intermean, in-betweeny, betweenhood, interspace, midtime.

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