running time
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]running time (countable and uncountable, plural running times)
- The duration of a film or other recorded work.
- 2017 September 19, Gwilym Mumford, “Kingsman: The Golden Circle review – spy sequel reaches new heights of skyscraping silliness”, in the Guardian[1]:
- Kingsman’s two-hour 20-minute running time could have been shaved by around a fifth, without losing a great deal.
- (computer science) Of an algorithm, the length of time required for it to run as a function, depending on the number of operations executed.