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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

  • (..) the sleeper still feels falling. Or tipping. The trick is to synchronise a kick that can penetrate all three levels. We could use a musical countdown to synchronise the different kicks. EAMES: He hasn't got any surgery scheduled, no dental, nothing. COBB: Wasn't he supposed to have (..)
    2010 Inception