Tidsdelt

Tidsdelt is a term from Danish and Norwegian usage that describes the practice of dividing access to a resource by time. In its broad sense, it refers to organizing usage so that different users or tasks occupy non-overlapping time slots, allowing shared use of a single resource without simultaneous contention.

Etymologically, tidsdelt combines tid, meaning time, with delt (shared or divided), reflecting the core idea of dividing time to enable simultaneous access to a resource in a controlled manner. The term appears in technical, legal, and everyday language within Scandinavian contexts, and its exact meaning can vary by domain.

In computing and information technology, tidsdelt scheduling or time-sliced approaches describe ways of allocating processor or system resources in discrete time quanta. This is comparable in spirit to time-division concepts in other fields, where the system ensures each task receives a defined portion of time. The precise implementation and rules for fairness, preemption, and latency depend on the specific software or hardware environment.

Beyond computing, tidsdelt also appears in real estate and hospitality to describe timeshare-like arrangements, where ownership or usage rights are allotted for specific periods. In broadcasting and media planning, the concept can refer to scheduling programs into fixed time slots to manage daily or weekly programming.

The term is not tied to a single standardized specification and its interpretation can differ across languages and industries. It remains a descriptive way to convey the principle of dividing time to share a resource.

See also: timeshare, time-division multiplexing, scheduling.