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dwell time en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) The length of time that a thing or person remains in a given state. ▸ 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 twist drill needs a total dwell time of 500 milliseconds at the bottom of the hole.
    • The part needs a total dwell time in the autoclave of 95 minutes.
  2. (uncountable, usually) The length of time that a thing or person remains in a given state. ▸ The duty time soldiers have at their domestic home base between foreign deployments.
  3. (Internet, uncountable, usually) The length of time that a thing or person remains in a given state. ▸ The amount of time that a user spends on a certain page or site.
  4. (uncountable, usually) The length of time that a thing or person remains in a given state. ▸ The amount of time a container is sitting onshore before being loaded onto trucks.
  5. (uncountable, usually) The length of time that a thing or person remains in a given state. ▸ The amount of time that an antenna beam spends on a target.
  6. (uncountable, usually) The length of time that a thing or person remains in a given state. ▸ The duration of a stop made by a train, tram or other transport vehicle to allow passengers to board or alight.
    • 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, ... 2019 October, “Chase Line service to be split next May”, in Modern Railways, page 17:
    • Due to overcrowding, the train network is experiencing very long dwell times.
    • "In 14 years of operation, we have never once delayed a passenger train," Griffiths stresses. We load at Leicester in a 90-second dwell time.[…]. 2026 July 22, Richard Wilcock, “The return of Red Star?”, in RAIL, number 2066, page 35:
  7. (uncountable, usually) Synonym of contact time.

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Relateds

dwell on · timing belt · timing chain · well-timed

Synonyms

contact time

Translations (2)

pl czas poświęcony na robienie czegoś (amount of time in a given state) · de Verweildauer (amount of time in a given state)