See time constant on Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "time constants",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "time-constant",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "time constant (plural time constants)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Mathematics",
"orig": "en:Mathematics",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "41 18 40",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "60 18 21",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 17 42",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 21 40",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "48 32 20",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "23 36 41",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Physical quantities",
"orig": "en:Physical quantities",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "y(t)=y_oe."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A characteristic of an exponential function, represented by τ in the function"
],
"id": "en-time_constant-en-noun-B-K1NKcY",
"links": [
[
"mathematics",
"mathematics"
],
[
"exponential function",
"exponential function"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(mathematics) A characteristic of an exponential function, represented by τ in the function:"
],
"topics": [
"mathematics",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "87 4 9",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "math: characteristic of exponential function",
"word": "aikavakio"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Physics",
"orig": "en:Physics",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "41 18 40",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 17 42",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 21 40",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "23 36 41",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Physical quantities",
"orig": "en:Physical quantities",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "0 67 33",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Time",
"orig": "en:Time",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The time in which a physical system's response to a step-wise change in an external variable reaches approximately 63% of its final (asymptotic) value."
],
"id": "en-time_constant-en-noun-9JwyB9za",
"links": [
[
"physics",
"physics"
],
[
"asymptotic",
"asymptotic"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(physics) The time in which a physical system's response to a step-wise change in an external variable reaches approximately 63% of its final (asymptotic) value."
],
"topics": [
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"physics"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "40 58 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "physics: characteristic of step response",
"word": "aikavakio"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "41 18 40",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "41 17 42",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "39 21 40",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "23 36 41",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Physical quantities",
"orig": "en:Physical quantities",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 10 85",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Radioactivity",
"orig": "en:Radioactivity",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"For radioactivity: the decay constant."
],
"id": "en-time_constant-en-noun-WS-N9U8E",
"links": [
[
"decay constant",
"decay constant"
]
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"time constant"
],
"word": "time constant"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"en:Physical quantities",
"en:Radioactivity",
"en:Time"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "time constants",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "time-constant",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "time constant (plural time constants)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Mathematics"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "y(t)=y_oe."
}
],
"glosses": [
"A characteristic of an exponential function, represented by τ in the function"
],
"links": [
[
"mathematics",
"mathematics"
],
[
"exponential function",
"exponential function"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(mathematics) A characteristic of an exponential function, represented by τ in the function:"
],
"topics": [
"mathematics",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Physics"
],
"glosses": [
"The time in which a physical system's response to a step-wise change in an external variable reaches approximately 63% of its final (asymptotic) value."
],
"links": [
[
"physics",
"physics"
],
[
"asymptotic",
"asymptotic"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(physics) The time in which a physical system's response to a step-wise change in an external variable reaches approximately 63% of its final (asymptotic) value."
],
"topics": [
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"physics"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"For radioactivity: the decay constant."
],
"links": [
[
"decay constant",
"decay constant"
]
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "math: characteristic of exponential function",
"word": "aikavakio"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "physics: characteristic of step response",
"word": "aikavakio"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"time constant"
],
"word": "time constant"
}
Download raw JSONL data for time constant meaning in All languages combined (1.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (142890b and 1d3fdbf). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.