1. time-sharing - Noun
2. time-sharing - Verb
The joint ownership or lease of a property by multiple people who can only use it for specified periods every year, or every other year.
(computing) A technique that allows many users to use a central computer simultaneously through remote terminals.
time-sharing
present participle of time-share
The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate. Steve Case
I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud. Audrey MacLean
Another contender for the first demonstrated time-sharing system was PLATO II, created by Donald Bitzer at a public demonstration at Robert Allerton Park near the University of Illinois in early 1961. Source: Internet
APL time-sharing vendors delivered applications in this form. Source: Internet
A time-sharing VM system could run multiple virtual machines, one per user, with each virtual machine running an instance of CMS. Source: Internet
” citation citation As head of IPTO from 1962 to 1964, “Licklider initiated three of the most important developments in information technology: the creation of computer science departments at several major universities, time-sharing, and networking.” Source: Internet