- a brief suspension of activity; intermission or break.
- a short interruption in a regular period of play during which a referee or other official stops the clock so that the players may rest, deliberate, make substitutions, etc.
- a short time alone used as a punishment or consequence for a child who is misbehaving.
- Computers.
- the termination of a process or event that is taking longer than expected to proceed, and that is more likely to be successful if relaunched, resubmitted, etc.
- the severing of an online connection after a period of inactivity, as when a user is logged out of a secure session on a webpage after a fixed period of time.
- an interruption in play during which players rest, discuss tactics, or make substitutions
- a break taken during working hours
- a condition occurring when the amount of time a computer has been instructed to wait for another device to perform a task has expired, usually indicated by an error message
- (of a computer) to stop operating because of a time-out
