running time

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running time

noun running times

  1. countable, uncountable The duration of a film or other recorded work. Kingsman’s two-hour 20-minute running time could have been shaved by around a fifth, without losing a great deal.
  2. countable, uncountable Of an algorithm, the length of time required for it to run as a function, depending on the number of operations executed.

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noun duration of recorded work

한국어러닝타임 reoningtaim
Portuguêsduração
Русскийпродолжи́тельность prodolžítelʹnostʹ

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@misc{running_time_2026,
  title = {running time},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/running%20time},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}