dwell time
English
Noun
dwell time (usually uncountable, plural dwell times)
- (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.
- 2019 October, “Chase Line service to be split next May”, in Modern Railways, page 17:
- Mr Thomas also confirmed that dwell times at New Street [Birmingham] are being examined to assess whether lengthening these would give the service more resilience, ...
- (military) The duty time soldiers have at their domestic home base between foreign deployments.
Translations
period time in a given state
References
- “dwell time”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.