elapsed time

1. 1.

   the time that elapses while some event is occurring

   Broadertime period

   Narrowerone-way light timeround-trip light time

Questions about elapsed time

What does elapsed time mean?

elapsed time means "the time that elapses while some event is occurring".

Is elapsed time a common word?

elapsed time is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.