time stamp

noun

variants: or timestamp \ ˈtīm-ˌstamp

plural time stamps or timestamps

Definition of time stamp

1 : a stamping device used for recording the date and time of day on a document, envelope, etc. (as to indicate when it was received or sent out)

2a : an indication of the date and time stamped on a document, envelope, etc. Problem was, a later check of the time stamp on the motion indicated that it had been filed nearly 40 minutes after Heinrich appeared before Wolf.— Thanassis Cambanis

b : an indication of the date and time recorded as part of a digital signal or file (such as an email, digital photograph, radio broadcast, or text message) indicating the time of creation, transmission, etc. When you share that viral video, it carries a time stamp. — Cosmopolitan … highlighted a seeming discrepancy between the timestamps of the phone records and surveillance video, with the surveillance video suggesting the shooting happened a moment or two earlier than the phone records.— Patrick Kernan

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time-stamp \ ˈtīm-ˌstamp

\ transitive verb time-stamped; time-stamping; time-stamps

The repository also contains time-stamped versions of your code … — Jeff Jurvis

Examples of time stamp in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The other products covered in the recall are three-pound trays of Kroger Ground Turkey (85% lean, 15% fat) with a sell- or freeze-by date of October 17, 2021, and a time stamp between 2314 and 2351 printed on the package. — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 14 Oct. 2021 They have been faithfully captured in regal portraiture, images that put a time stamp on the state of the republic. — Washington Post, 29 June 2021 He was shoved into the lockboxes around 8:05 p.m., according to a time stamp on the footage reviewed by his attorney. — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2021 Today's Amazon lightning deal drops this chair down to $161, but the time stamp on this deal is just under 15 hours. — Forbes Vetted, Forbes, 22 June 2021 This time stamp tells us when these minerals were buried (or trapped in an object like a pot). — Alex Schoeman, Quartz, 29 May 2021 For a panoramic view of international travel, several industry players have stepped into the arena with user-friendly research tools, such as interactive maps, capsules of information and a time stamp of the last update. — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021 The big problem is that so much of Instagram’s user interface—like your profile picture, the reply button, and the time stamp—sits on top of everything. — Harry Guinness, Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2021 Using radiocarbon dating, the team studied cross sections of the trees -- whose annual growth rings served as a natural time stamp -- to track the changes in radiocarbon levels during the pole reversal. — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 19 Feb. 2021

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