circulation time (English, noun)
expansion: circulation time (countable and uncountable, plural circulation times)
Senses:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: drilling
glosses: The amount of time required for mud to circulate from the suction pit, enter into the wellbore and then return to the surface.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The time it takes for a fluid to complete its circuit of the body, especially the time it takes blood to circulate.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: archaeology
economics
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The time in which capital is bound up the form of a commodity; the time in which a manufactured item is in use.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: geography
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: The time it takes oceanwater, moving via currents, to move between two points, or to complete a cycle back to its starting point.
tags: countable
uncountable
glosses: The amount of time that a fluid takes to complete a cycle around a vessel in which it is being mixed or stirred.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: The amount of time that elapses in a multiprocess system from the time when a process is loaded for execution until the time when the same process is next loaded for more processing.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: circulation times
tags: plural