countdown
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (noun) IPA(key): /ˈkaʊntˌdaʊn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
countdown (plural countdowns)
- A count backward in fixed units to the time of some event, especially the launch of a space vehicle.
- The acts of preparation carried out during this period.
- A radio or television program counting down the top songs of a given week, usually in reverse order ending with the No. 1.
Related terms
Translations
a count backward to the time of some event
|
the acts of preparation carried out during this period
|
Verb
countdown (third-person singular simple present countdowns, present participle countdowning, simple past and past participle countdowned)
- (nonstandard) To count down.
- 1994, Yifeng Yuan, Polarized fluorescence photobleaching for measuring fast rotational motion of cell surface receptors:
- This was accomplished in the old system by polling a software variable representing the number of prebleach bin and issuing a software command to trigger the AOM once the variable has countdowned to zero.
- 2000, Stephen Mark Cox, Cluck:
- Time measures itself out in a series of diminishing peristaltic ticks, countdowning slowly towards the miracle of Ignition.
- 2003, Edward Stone Cohen, Firewater, →ISBN, page 129:
- Whole families stood gawking at the massive statue, countdowning the five remaining minutes to the big one.
Translations
count down — see count down
See also
Wikiwand in your browser!
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.
