running time

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Noun

running time (countable and uncountable, plural running times)

  1. 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:
      Kingsman’s two-hour 20-minute running time could have been shaved by around a fifth, without losing a great deal.
  2. (computer science) 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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