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timewheel en · NOUN

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1. (countable, uncountable) A circular array of items sorted by time.
   • Then, a pointer into the timewheel table indicates the current time slot and the owner of the resource during that time slot. 2004, William James Dally, Brian Patrick Towles, Principles and Practices of Interconnection Networks, page 294:
   • Timewheels are used in event-driven simulators to control the order in which simulated events are processed. 2016, Marilyn Wolf, Computers as Components, page 443:
   • The event-driven simulator uses a timewheel to manage the relationships between components. 2004, Wayne Wolf, FPGA-Based System Design, pages 3-61:
   • The three atomicity semantics of an update broadcast using the timewheel group communication service are affected by the group membership protocol. 1998, Shivakant Mishra, Christof Fetzer, Flaviu Cristian, “The Timewheel Group Membership Protocol”, in Jose Rolim, editor, Parallel and Distributed Processing, page 678:
2. (countable, uncountable) A circular control or device on which the distance around the circumference represents an amount of time.
   • In initial work assessing the relative effectiveness of these types, Kraak et al. (1997) refer to these indicators as temporal legends, and classify them as linear, cyclical (a similar distinction as the timeline and timewheel query tools described *30.4.1), and text, where the location in time of the animation is given simply by letters and numbers that change with the animation. 2005, J. Dykes, A.M. MacEachren, M.-J. Kraak, Exploring Geovisualization, page 583:
   • We offer the timewheel tool in Figure 8.1 as one way to track how much time each kid is spending on daily activities and where some balancing work needs to be done. 2015, Denise Pope, Maureen Brown, Sarah Miles, Overloaded and Underprepared, page 167:
   • The travel of the timewheel is directly proportional to the distance traversed by the ship, quite independently of the direction in which the timewheel travels. 1905 June, “The Deadreckoner”, in Steamship and Other Power Vessels, volume 16, number 192, page 460:
3. (countable, uncountable) A timekeeping device (or part of one) that operates by a geared wheel that advances at regular intervals.
   • Inside was a note and a pocket timewheel. 2021, A.E. Kincaid, The Demon, the Hero, and the City of Seven:
   • The "bottom-cut" teeth will hold the wheel between impulses, at which time the timewheel does not get a chance to roll down the track, and hence keeps the holding pawl in the upper position where it will engage the top of the tooth which is not cut away. 1923, Railway Signaling - Volume 17, page 141:
   • As the pendulum C may be subjected to various lengths of swing by the varying power of the battery, a provision has been made to prevent it from moving the timewheel more than one tooth at each forward swing of the pendulum. 1871, Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office, page 47:
4. (countable, uncountable) Synonym of wheel of time.
   • Kalachakra is a term used in tantric Buddhism that means "timewheel" or "timecycles." 2009, Eric Flint, Grantville Gazette, Volume V:
   • Liddle baby Emerinice or Beremul, another slaver on the timewheel, I think that's what the equipment's for, huh? 2019, Rudy Rucker, The Ware Tetralogy:
   • The universe, the nature and the timewheel always keeps moving. 2016, K S Bhardwaj, Love Beyond Horizons:

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wheel of time