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prime time

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. prime timenoun

    the hours between 7 and 11 p.m. when the largest tv audience is available

Wiktionary

  1. prime timenoun

    Spring.

  2. prime timenoun

    A new period or time of youthfulness; the beginning of something.

  3. prime timenoun

    The block of programming on television during the middle of the evening, usually between 19:00 and 23:00

  4. prime timeadjective

    Showing during prime time.

Wikipedia

  1. Prime time

    Prime time or the peak time is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for a television show. It is mostly targeted towards adults (and sometimes families). It is used by the major television networks to broadcast their season's nightly programming. The term prime time is often defined in terms of a fixed time period—for example (in the United States), from 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. (Eastern and Pacific Time) or 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. (Central and Mountain Time). In India and some Middle Eastern countries, prime time consists of the programmes that are aired on TV between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. local time.

ChatGPT

  1. prime time

    Prime time is the block of time during the evening when television viewing is typically at its highest, usually allocated for broadcasting popular or major programs and shows. This period is often used by broadcasters to air their highest-quality or most popular content due to the potential for increased viewership. Generally, prime time occurs between 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., though it may vary under different television markets.

Wikidata

  1. Prime time

    Prime time or primetime is the block of broadcast programming during the middle of the evening for television programing. The term prime time is often defined in terms of a fixed time period—for example, from 19:00 to 22:00 or 20:00 to 23:00.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. prime time

    [from TV programming] Normal high-usage hours on a system or network. Back in the days of big timesharing machines ‘prime time’ was when lots of people were competing for limited cycles, usually the day shift. Avoidance of prime time was traditionally given as a major reason for night mode hacking. The term fell into disuse during the early PC era, but has been revived to refer to times of day or evening at which the Internet tends to be heavily loaded, making Web access slow. The hackish tendency to late-night hacking runs has changed not a bit.

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  2. prime time

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of prime time in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of prime time in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of prime time in a Sentence

  1. Rachel Maddow:

    MSNBC's Trump-bashing prime time host Rachel Maddow suggested Trump should never have granted Kim a meeting. I don't think we should sugarcoat what the president has done here by agreeing to this meeting. North Korea is the most repressive dictatorship on Earth, arguably.

  2. David Kimberley:

    The latest surge in dogecoin is a continuation of the greater fool theory trend we’ve seen playing out over the past couple of months, more people are aware of what’s going on and are looking to jump on the gravy train to make a quick buck. It’s very likely that Elon Musk pumping the coin tomorrow on prime-time U.S. TV will only serve to compound things and push the price up.

  3. Katherine Helmond:

    I don't think it's lurid, daytime soaps go into areas - lesbianism, married nuns, a woman in love with a priest - that would not be touched in prime time. And they're super-serious. We just take real situations and exaggerate them.

  4. House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff:

    Now I will say this : The present circumstances are also very different than Watergate and I think for a very fundamental reason, and that is in Watergate it wasn't that the existence of tapes made all the difference, house Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff know it was certainly important, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff know, in this impeachment proceeding, we have the existence of the call record, but I don't think that's really what differentiates then from now. I think the main difference is The President now has Fox prime time and that allows The President supporters to live in this alternative fact world.

  5. Matt Schlapp:

    Now we need to see how they handle it when they are really pressed in prime time with all their competitors around, what kind of temperament do they have? Do you have reasonable policy positions or is it just a bunch of pablum?


Translations for prime time

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  • وقت الذروةArabic
  • Prime-Time, Prime Time, HauptsendezeitGerman
  • ώρα αιχμήςGreek
  • horario estelar, horario central, horario de máxima audienciaSpanish
  • paras katseluaika, paras kuunteluaikaFinnish
  • première partie de soirée, heure de plus grande écoute, heure de grande écouteFrench
  • príomh-am sceidil, príomh-amIrish
  • horario de máxima audiencia, horario estelar, horario centralGalician
  • मुख्य समयHindi
  • ゴールデンタイム, プライムタイムJapanese
  • ಪ್ರಧಾನ ಸಮಯKannada
  • ударно времеMacedonian
  • waktu prima, masa perdana, masa prima, waktu perdanaMalay
  • beste tidNorwegian
  • prime timePolish
  • horário nobrePortuguese
  • прайм-тайм, лучшее эфирное времяRussian
  • 黃金時間Chinese

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