stay time

English

Noun

stay time (countable and uncountable, plural stay times)

1. (aerospace engineering) 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.
2. (nuclear energy) The time period in which personnel may remain in a restricted area of a reactor before accumulating a certain permissible occupational dose.
3. (dated, obsolete) Something that halts or arrests the passage of time.