deadtime

  1. Noun.  The time between a change in a signal and the response to that change.
  2. Noun.  The time, after an event, during which a system cannot respond to a second event.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.