- a digital or printed record of the time that something happened: The timestamp showed that the blog post had been made at 8:01 a.m.
- a device for stamping the date and time of day that letters, packages, etc., are received or mailed.
- the act or process of recording, digitally or in print, the time that something happened: The program timestamps each electronic signature, so we always know exactly when the documents were signed.
- to assign an accurate time to (a message, transaction, etc)