point in time - an instant of time; "at that point I had to leave"distance - a remote point in time; "if that happens it will be at some distance in the future"; "at a distance of ten years he had forgotten many of the details" date - a particular but unspecified point in time; "they hoped to get together at an early date" deadline - the point in time at which something must be completed midterm - middle of an academic term or a political term in office full term, term - the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent; "a healthy baby born at full term" midterm - the middle of the gestation period run-time - the time at which a (software or multimedia) program is run middle - time between the beginning and the end of a temporal period; "the middle of the war"; "rain during the middle of April" end, ending - the point in time at which something ends; "the end of the year"; "the ending of warranty period" phase angle, phase - a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle show time - the point in time at which an entertainment (a movie or television show etc.) is scheduled to begin then - that time; that moment; "we will arrive before then"; "we were friends from then on" |