waiting time
Time until served
Waiting time is the period spent anticipating something—a bus, a medical appointment, service at a counter.
In technical contexts, it measures system efficiency: The average waiting time at the DMV exceeded two hours.
Healthcare and queuing theory treat waiting time as a key metric of performance and patient satisfaction.
- queueingWaiting in order
- delayEnforced waiting period
- boredomWeary disinterest from monotony
- anticipationState of awaiting something
- patienceCalm during delays
backlog · latency · frustration · anxiety · restlessness · tick tock · chronos · liminality · scheduling · uncertainty · bottleneck · holding pattern · variance · queue management · impermanence · eternity · waiting lists · doctor's office
- queuesqueue, waiting line, lineup, waiting list, enqueue
- CPU Schedulingscheduler, round robin, round-robin, FIFO, quantum
- faresbase fare, standard fare, adult fare, student fare, senior fare
- factory problemsdefects, breakdowns, downtime, bottlenecks, delays
- paperworkinvoice, permit, documents, license, filing
- organ transplantsorgan donation, organ transplant, kidney transplant, heart transplant, liver transplant
waiting timeinstant access
Reaching something without delay
immediacy · instant gratification · quick turnaround · express service · priority service
waiting timeprocessing time
Duration to complete computation
service time · run time · uptime · downtime