between-time

English

Alternative forms

• between time

Etymology

From between +‎ time.

Noun

between-time (plural between-times)

1. The period or time between two events; interim; meantime; meanwhile.
   • 1993, Maurice Blanchot, The Infinite Conversation:

     Sade therefore calls the pure time of suspended history marking an epoch a revolutionary regime; it is the time of the between-times where, between the old laws and the new, there reigns the silence of the absence of laws, an interval that corresponds precisely to the suspension of speech […]

   • 1994, Ronald Bogue, Mihai Spariosu, The Play of the Self:

     In the case of the time of the event, by contrast, It is no longer time which is between two instants; it is the event which is a between-time [entre-temps, "meanwhile, meantime"]: the between-time is not of the eternal, but it is no longer (of) time, it is (of) becoming.

   • 1996, Emmanuel Lévinas, Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak, Simon Critchley, Emmanuel Lévinas:

     It relates to a recurrence in the dead time or the between-time separating inspiration and expiration, the diastole and systole of the heart beating softly against the lining of one's own skin.

   • 2001, William Desmond, Ethics and the Between:

     Freedom itself ages; it is not eternal, though perhaps it brings us to a border between time and eternity. Ethical selving is in the between time, the interim of the aging of freedom. Freedom, of course, seems the catch cry of modernity.

   • 2012, Keith O. Fuglie, V. Eldon Ball, Sun Ling Wang, Productivity Growth in Agriculture:

     Turning to the between regressions, the elasticity on fixed capital is particularly high (0.63) in the between-time […] The between-time estimate of capital of agricultural origin is significantly positive, though more modest in value (0.25).

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:interim

See also

• intermission, pause, break