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timestamp

noun
/ˈtaɪmˌstæmp/

Etymology

From time + stamp (noun); the verb sense derives from the noun.

  1. derived from *stampōną✻
  2. derived from *stampōn✻
  3. derived from *stampōn✻
  4. derived from stampen — “to crush, pestle”
  5. compounded as timestamp — “time + stamp”

Definitions

  1. A variable containing the date and time at which an event occurred, often included in a…

    A variable containing the date and time at which an event occurred, often included in a log to track the sequence of events.

  2. The time at which something in a video occurs.

  3. To record the date and time of (an event, etc).

The neighborhood

Derived

Lamport timestamp, timestamp-based concurrency control, time-stamping, timestamp reply, timestomp

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for timestamp. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA