time stamp

noun

variants or timestamp
plural time stamps or timestamps
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)
2
a
: 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
time-stamp 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 Sullivan referenced moment-by-moment time stamps from the eight-minute video recorded on Jan. 30. Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 22 Mar. 2024 The time stamp became code for the act of smoking weed, and eventually spread beyond the Golden State's borders to none other than The Grateful Dead. Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 11 Mar. 2024 The footage, which has a time stamp of Feb. 21, then shows the driver being dragged from the car to the safety of the pool deck. Simone Jasper, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2024 The number of euthanasias performed during those hours at the Baldwin Park shelter could not be determined because many of its time stamps were missing from records. Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023 The specific discrepancies identified by Hough included anachronistic use of fonts, metadata that implied computer clocks had been manipulated, internal time stamps that contradicted the outward-facing dating of documents, and more. Joel Khalili, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2024 My first on-the-books job was in the (time stamp) mall. Lucy Corin, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024 The time stamp on the footage read 5:43 a.m. Tawfiq al-Shobaki, a hospital spokesman, confirmed in a text message that Basil Ghazawi had been receiving treatment in the hospital since October and was paralyzed, adding that there had been no exchange of fire before the Israeli forces killed the men. Mohamad El Chamaa, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024 This 1987 title offers a big snapshot and time stamp of the range of recipes produced by Southern Living in its first 20 years. Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 14 Dec. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1855, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of time stamp was in 1855

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“Time stamp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/time%20stamp. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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