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The gap where the old system has died but the new one hasn't quite agreed to live yet.
means The act or process of switching from one system, method, or state to another.
from A straightforward 19th-century compound of 'change' and 'over' — the 'over' doing the same work it does in 'handover' or 'crossover,' marking a shift from one side of something to the other. No hidden story here: it's built exactly the way it sounds, a plain carpenter's joint of a word, first used for shift changes and sports substitutions before settling into its general sense of transition.
- factories love it
- retooling lines costs more downtime than defects
- sports usage
- tennis changeovers are capped at ninety seconds exactly
- etymology
- first recorded industrial use dates to the 1900s
- risk window
- most system failures cluster right at handoff points