time-out : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: time-out	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for time-out
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
time-out n a brief suspension of play; "each team has two time-outs left"
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
timeout A period of time after which an error condition is raised if some event has not occured. A common example is sending a message. If the receiver does not acknowledge the message within some preset timeout period, a transmission error is assumed to have occured. (1995-11-09)