Time slot
A time slot (English time slot ) or a time slice (English time slice is) - in the information technology a period of fixed length, within which - resource is available can be used, and periodically available.
Communications engineering
In the communications technology in is time-division multiplex method , one time slot a dedicated time period within a transmission frame and usually corresponds to a transmission channel (for example a B channel of an ISDN - Primary Rate Interface ).
Computer science
In multitasking operating systems that are based on the time slice method, a time slot is the interval in which the processor performance is made available to a task. When the time has elapsed, the scheduler takes over the processor again. On the basis of priorities, this decides whether the current task is to be executed in a further time slot or whether it is the turn of a waiting process.