time gap

time gap (plural time gaps)

1. A time interval between two related events.
   • 1880, James Edward Henry Gordon, A Physical Treatise on Eletricity and Magnetism, Volume 2, page 138:

     At the instant of any event, which it is desired to record, the circuit is broken by hand or otherwise, and a gap made in the line whose position between the two nearest time-gaps gives the time of the event.

   • 1890, William James, The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1, page 237:

     The only breaches that can well be conceived to occur within the limits of a single mind would either be interruptions, time-gaps during which the consciousness went out altogether to come into existence again at a later moment;

   • 1966, United States, Patent Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office‎^[1], volume 824, page 1171:

     each timer means including means for measuring the actual time gap between successive vehicles passing a selected position in each of the multiple traffic lanes of a "go" street, means for establishing an allowable time gap for such vehicular movement.

   • 2010, National Research Council Canada, National Research Council of Canada (contributors), Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences‎^[2], volume 47, numbers 10-12, page 1494:

     there was a short time gap between the formation of the Ore Sequence host rocks and the actual deposition of the sulphides.