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Time loop
Time loop (temporal loop): a fiction plot device in which characters repeat a set period until it is broken. Known from Groundhog Day (1993), Russian Doll, Edge of Tomorrow, and time loop games like Outer Wilds; earliest known example is a 1927 short story.
Time Lord
Time Lords are the fictional alien race from Doctor Who, native to Gallifrey in the Kasterborous constellation, founded by Rassilon and Omega, able to regenerate twelve times, ruled by a High Council of six chapters, and nearly wiped out in the Time War.
Time machine
A time machine is a hypothetical device that creates closed timelike curves, enabling time travel; general relativity allows this in principle, but no practical construction is known.
Time management
Time management is the practice of deciding how work hours are allocated, structuring, protecting, and adapting time; it correlates with wellbeing more than with job performance.
Time of concentration
The time of concentration is the time runoff takes to travel from a watershed's hydraulically most distant point to the outlet, a measure dating to 1851.
Time of Contempt
Time of Contempt (Czas pogardy) is Andrzej Sapkowski's 1995 fantasy novel, second of the five Witcher saga novels, fourth book overall. It covers the Thanedd mage coup, Nilfgaard's invasion, and Ciri's separation from Geralt; English translation by David French appeared in 2013.
Time of Death (2025 film)
Time of Death (also released as Closure) is a 2025 American psychological horror thriller directed by Will Wernick, written by Jason Rosen, starring Michael Kelly, Kevin Pollak, Mena Suvari, and Dennis Haysbert, set in a 1987 decaying prison and released June 12, 2026.
Time of Emergence
Time of emergence (ToE) is the time when an anthropogenic climate change signal emerges from natural climate variability in a given region, formalized by Ed Hawkins and Rowan Sutton in 2012.
Time of Eve (イヴの時間)
Time of Eve (イヴの時間, Eve no Jikan) is a Japanese sci-fi anime by Yasuhiro Yoshiura: a 2008 six-episode ONA about androids and a cafe with no human-android distinction, re-edited into a 2010 theatrical film.
Time of Parting
Time of Parting (Време разделно) is a 1964 historical novel by Bulgarian writer Anton Donchev depicting the forced Islamization of Orthodox Bulgarians in the Rhodope Mountains in 1668.
Time of Silence
Time of Silence (Tiempo de silencio) is a 1962 Spanish novel by the psychiatrist Luis Martín-Santos, regarded as the pioneering work of the Spanish experimental novel of the late 1960s.
Time of the Gypsies
Time of the Gypsies (Dom za vešanje) is a 1988 Yugoslav-British-Italian drama by Emir Kusturica, the first feature filmed entirely in Romani, about teen Perhan drawn into child trafficking; it won Cannes 1989 Best Director.
Time of the Season
Time of the Season, 1968 song by the Zombies written by Rod Argent, closing track of Odessey and Oracle, recorded at Abbey Road; a posthumous US hit reaching No. 3 Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 Cashbox in 1969.
Time of the Wolf
Time of the Wolf (Le temps du loup, Wolfzeit) is Michael Haneke's 2003 French-Austrian-German post-apocalyptic drama starring Isabelle Huppert, about a family left to survive after an unspecified catastrophe, titled after the Edda's wolf-age.
Time of the Writer
Time of the Writer is an annual international literature festival in Durban, South Africa, run by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal since 1998.
Time of Troubles (Смутное время)
Time of Troubles (Смутное время, Smuta): crisis period in Russia 1598–1613 after the Rurikid dynasty ended, marked by famine, pretenders like False Dmitrii, Polish-Swedish intervention, and ending with Michael Romanov's election.
Time Out (album)
Time Out, 1959 Dave Brubeck Quartet album (Columbia), all-original jazz in odd meters: Blue Rondo a la Turk in 9/8, Take Five in 5/4; first jazz album and single to sell a million, RIAA double platinum.
Time Out (upcoming film)
Time Out is an upcoming Netflix psychological drama directed by Scott Cooper, starring Adam Sandler as Vincent, a fired man hiding the truth from his family; it remakes the 2001 French film L'Emploi du temps and filmed in Vancouver and San Francisco in 2026.
Time Out of Joint
Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick's 1959 Lippincott novel, his first U.S. hardcover, in which puzzle-contest winner Ragle Gumm discovers his 1959 world is a 1998 wartime illusion.
Time Out of Mind (Bob Dylan album)
Time Out of Mind, Bob Dylan's 30th studio album (1997, Columbia), produced by Daniel Lanois, his first originals in seven years; won three Grammys including Album of the Year and revived his career.
Time Out of Mind (Steely Dan song)
"Time Out of Mind" is a 1980 Steely Dan song by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, the fifth track and second single from Gaucho, a cheerful heroin song with Mark Knopfler guitar and Michael McDonald backing vocals, reaching US number 22.
Time perception
Time perception: the study of how humans and animals experience duration, order, and simultaneity without a sense organ for time; pacemaker-accumulator models, cortico-basal ganglia timing circuits, and malleability by attention, emotion, and stress.
Time Person of the Year
TIME Person of the Year, called Man of the Year until 1999, is TIME magazine's annual selection of the person, group, or concept most influencing the year's news, begun in 1927 with Charles Lindbergh, and not a merit award.
Time projection chamber
A time projection chamber is a particle detector recording three-dimensional particle tracks in a gas or liquid volume, invented by David R. Nygren at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in 1974.
Time quasicrystal
A time quasicrystal is a nonequilibrium phase of matter in which a quantum system driven by a quasiperiodic force forms ordered temporal patterns lacking strict periodicity.
Time Records (record label)
Time Records is an Italian independent record label founded by Giacomo Maiolini in Brescia in 1984, known for eurobeat and four UK chart number ones.
Time reflection
Time reflection, also called temporal reflection, occurs when a wave is reversed in time by an abrupt, spatially uniform change in its medium, shifting frequency and phase.
Time refraction and time reflection
Time refraction and time reflection are the temporal analogs of ordinary refraction and reflection, arising when a wave's medium changes abruptly in time, splitting it into forward and backward waves.
Time Renegades (시간이탈자)
Time Renegades (시간이탈자) is a 2016 South Korean romantic fantasy thriller directed by Kwak Jae-yong, starring Im Soo-jung, Cho Jung-seok, and Lee Jin-wook, in which a 1983 teacher and a 2015 detective share dreams to prevent a fated murder.
Time reversal imaging
Time reversal imaging is a wavefield method that reverses recorded signals and propagates them back through a medium model, refocusing energy on the original source or scatterer.