ADJECTIVE
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acting or arriving or performed exactly at the time appointed
he is not a particularly punctual person
she is always on time for class
she expected guests to be punctual at meals
punctual payment -
payable in installments within a designated period of time
we were short of cash, so we purchased our refrigerator on time
ADVERB
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at the expected or proper time
she always arrives on time
How To Use on time In A Sentence
- At election time the party needs a lot of voluntary helpers.
- Our interneuronal connections in our brain, for example, process information at chemical signaling speeds of a few hundred feet per second, compared to a billion feet per second for electronics - electronics is a million times faster.
- According to the EPA, fish at the top of the aquatic food chain bioaccumulate methylmercury to a level approximately 1 million to 10 million times greater than dissolved concentrations found in surrounding waters. Field and Stream Report: The Truth about Mercury and the Fish You Eat
- choco-lemon's diary choco-lemon's Diaryland Diary nerves up until lunch this was a completely horrible day. it picked up when me, lindsay, and krist stopped at murray to buy a quatch. once we smoked i bowl i felt a million times better. and that scares me. Nerves
- They were batting their eyelashes a million times a second and showing off their best seductive smiles… yuk!
- Jonathan Steele, who recently returned to follow up on that story, quotes a young man who lost half his family in Halabja saying of the memorial, "If they rebuild it a thousand times, I will burn it down a million times. Archive 2007-03-01
- Typically the corona is a million times fainter than the solar surface, which is why it cannot be seen except when the photosphere is mostly extinguished.
- The increased number of detectors and tube rotation times combine to give faster coverage of a given volume of tissue.
- the game was finished in regulation time
- The difference in turn-on time would generally not be noticeable for standard household incandescent bulbs, since they turn on very quickly.