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countdown

Definition

  • noun: the act of counting down the number of seconds that remain before something (such as the launch of a rocket) happens
  • noun: an audible backward 'counting' in fixed units (as seconds) from an arbitrary starting number to mark the time remaining before an event
  • usually singular

Examples

  • The engineers stopped the 'countdown' because something was wrong with the engine.

  • the 'countdown to' summer vacation

  • the steady 'countdown to' war

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) we don't do the inspections? Right now I'm asking how often they reveal a problem. One in . But that's grounds for countdown halt. We can't take that chance. Anyone else know a safer way to buy more time? Dr. Keller, stretch watney's (..)
    2015 The Martian