stay time
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[edit]Noun
[edit]stay time (countable and uncountable, plural stay times)
- (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.
- (nuclear energy) The time period in which personnel may remain in a restricted area of a reactor before accumulating a certain permissible occupational dose.
- (dated, obsolete) Something that halts or arrests the passage of time.