time gap

Span between events

A time gap is an interval or discontinuity between two periods or events.

It might be the pause between episodes of a television series, the years between someone leaving a job and starting another, or a missing stretch in historical records: There's a three-year time gap in her résumé.

In narrative, a time gap is when a story skips forward, leaving events unshown.

Related
  • intervalDuration between two points
  • pauseTemporary cessation of activity
  • lapseBrief failure or expiration
  • hiatusBreak in activity
  • breakInterrupt continuity

waiting period · delay · dead air · span · stretch · interlude · void · silence · waiting · between · elapsed · duration · lag · in between · intermission · meanwhile · suspension · discontinuity

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temporal continuity

time gapcontinuity

Uninterrupted progression or coherence

seamlessness · contiguity · succession · flow · seamless flow

temporal occurrence

time gapsimultaneity

State of coexisting temporally

synchrony · concurrence · coincidence · synchronicity · contemporaneity

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time, gap, times, timed, timing, timer, timers, timely, untimely

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