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noun
The amount of time required for mud to circulate from the suction pit, enter into the wellbore and then return to the surface.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: drilling
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
The time it takes for a fluid to complete its circuit of the body, especially the time it takes blood to circulate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
The time in which capital is bound up the form of a commodity; the time in which a manufactured item is in use.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: archaeology, economics, history, human-sciences, sciences
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noun
The time it takes oceanwater, moving via currents, to move between two points, or to complete a cycle back to its starting point.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: geography, natural-sciences, oceanography
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noun
The amount of time that a fluid takes to complete a cycle around a vessel in which it is being mixed or stirred.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: computer, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, science, sciences
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History
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