Aug 20, 2008 19:03
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English term

down time

English Tech/Engineering IT (Information Technology)
As it now moves forward with a truly embedded level of IT interaction, the people of the region will demand highly responsive technologies at the front end to ensure their on-screen experiences are optimsed – and at the back end too as they come to expect fast response times with little or no down time.
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Aug 26, 2008 07:40: Steffen Walter changed "Field" from "Other" to "Tech/Engineering" , "Field (specific)" from "General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters" to "IT (Information Technology)"

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period of time when the system/product is not operating

Downtime or outage refers to a period of time or a percentage of a timespan that a system is unavailable or offline. This is usually a result of the system failing to function because of an unplanned event, or because of routine maintenance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtime
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13 hrs

Lost time, time loss, idle time, dead time

When a system or program does not function.

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Note added at 1 day2 hrs (2008-08-21 21:23:40 GMT)
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or of course, "down-time"!
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