dwell time

English

Noun

dwell time (usually uncountable, plural dwell times)

  1. (chiefly engineering) The period of time that a system or element of a system remains in a given state.
    The drone has a dwell time of about six hours when operating from an in-theater airfield.
    The part needs a total dwell time in the autoclave of 95 minutes.
  2. (military) The duty time soldiers have at their domestic home base between foreign deployments.

Translations

Anagrams
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.