circulation time

noun6

1. •
   The amount of time required for mud to circulate from the suction pit, enter into the wellbore and then return to the surface.

   • To use this solution for any value of circulation time, we introduce below the adjusted circulation time. — 2015
2. •
   The time it takes for a fluid to complete its circuit of the body, especially the time it takes blood to circulate.

   • No correlation has been found between blood pressure and circulation time in either healthy or diseased individuals (Blumgart & Weiss 1927, Olsone 1941, Kerpel-Fronius 1950). — 1953
3. •
   The time it takes oceanwater, moving via currents, to move between two points, or to complete a cycle back to its starting point.

   • Ê is scaled by the circulation time and a factor to remove the salinity dimension. — 1996
4. •
   The amount of time that a fluid takes to complete a cycle around a vessel in which it is being mixed or stirred.

   • This is the same order of magnitude as circulation time and mixing time for large fermenters. — 1991
5. •
   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.

   • The circulation time of a slot in front of an access window has been chosen as the basic unit of time. — 1982
6. •
   The time in which capital is bound up the form of a commodity; the time in which a manufactured item is in use.

   • tracing the precise circulation routes and circulation time of exchange goods may offer finer detail on social questions, cf. Frankenstein and Rowlands ( 1978 ). — 1984