stay time (English, noun)
expansion: stay time (countable and uncountable, plural stay times)
Senses:
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of the usage of a rocket engine, the mean value of the amount of time spent by each gas molecule or atom within the chamber volume.
tags: countable
uncountable
qualifier: nuclear energy
glosses: The time period in which personnel may remain in a restricted area of a reactor before accumulating a certain permissible occupational dose.
tags: countable
uncountable
glosses: Something that halts or arrests the passage of time.
tags: countable
dated
obsolete
uncountable
Forms:
form: stay times
tags: plural