What is the meaning of times?

noun

• An instance or single occasion for some event.
  • usage: "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip"
  • synonyms: time, clip
• A period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something.
  • usage: "take time to smell the roses"; "I didn't have time to finish"; "it took more than half my time"
  • synonyms: time
• An indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities. )
  • usage: "he waited a long time"; "the time of year for planting"; "he was a great actor in his time"
  • synonyms: time
• A suitable moment.
  • usage: "it is time to go"
  • synonyms: time
• The continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past.
  • synonyms: time
• A person's experience on a particular occasion.
  • usage: "he had a time holding back the tears"; "they had a good time together"
  • synonyms: time
• A reading of a point in time as given by a clock.
  • usage: "do you know what time it is"; "the time is 10 o'clock"
  • synonyms: clock time, time
• The fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event.
  • synonyms: fourth dimension, time
• Rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration.
  • synonyms: meter, metre, time
• The period of time a prisoner is imprisoned.
  • usage: "he served a prison term of 15 months"; "his sentence was 5 to 10 years"; "he is doing time in the county jail"
  • synonyms: prison term, sentence, time
• A more or less definite period of time now or previously present.
  • usage: "it was a sign of the times"
• An arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed.
  • usage: "the multiplication of four by three gives twelve"; "four times three equals twelve"
  • synonyms: multiplication

verb

• Measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time.
  • usage: "he clocked the runners"
  • synonyms: clock, time
• Assign a time for an activity or event.
  • usage: "The candidate carefully timed his appearance at the disaster scene"
  • synonyms: time
• Set the speed, duration, or execution of.
  • usage: "we time the process to manufacture our cars very precisely"
  • synonyms: time
• Regulate or set the time of.
  • usage: "time the clock"
  • synonyms: time
• Adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time.
  • usage: "The good player times his swing so as to hit the ball squarely"
  • synonyms: time