Definition of "time-release" [time-release]

• Variant of timed-release. (adjective)

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• "To revisit the good food is good medicine metaphor, you might even call it time-release food."
• "Oral doses of melatonin haven't worked much better at inducing sleep than a placebo in most studies, Scharf says, and a single, concentrated shot of the stuff doesn't exactly mimic the body's time-release system."
• "When she called her husband, Aaron—who was in Miami, a city so geographically opposite Portland she thought he must have orchestrated the business trip—he mentioned canned poison, self-contained time-release smoke bombs, even a carefully involved effort at batting the nests with golf clubs."