[tahym-out] 
| 1. | a brief suspension of activity; intermission or break. |
| 2. | Sports. a short interruption in a regular period of play during which a referee or other official stops the clock so that the players may rest, deliberate, make substitutions, etc. |
| time-out or time·out (tīm'out') n.
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timeout
A period of time after which an error condition is raised if some event has not occured. A common example is sending a message. If the receiver does not acknowledge the message within some preset timeout period, a transmission error is assumed to have occured.
(1995-11-09)