"circulation time" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: circulation times [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} circulation time (countable and uncountable, plural circulation times)
  1. (engineering, drilling) The amount of time required for mud to circulate from the suction pit, enter into the wellbore and then return to the surface. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Engineering
    Sense id: en-circulation_time-en-noun-vRMMj0D4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 20 7 24 18 19 Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
  2. (medicine) The time it takes for a fluid to complete its circuit of the body, especially the time it takes blood to circulate. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-circulation_time-en-noun-m~pKRev9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 20 7 24 18 19 Topics: medicine, sciences
  3. (economics, archaeology) The time in which capital is bound up the form of a commodity; the time in which a manufactured item is in use. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Archaeology, Economics
    Sense id: en-circulation_time-en-noun-gLUq6FOB Topics: archaeology, economics, history, human-sciences, science, sciences
  4. (oceanography, geosciences) The time it takes oceanwater, moving via currents, to move between two points, or to complete a cycle back to its starting point. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Oceanography
    Sense id: en-circulation_time-en-noun-sc-YBEx7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 20 7 24 18 19 Topics: geography, natural-sciences, oceanography
  5. The amount of time that a fluid takes to complete a cycle around a vessel in which it is being mixed or stirred. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-circulation_time-en-noun-e-8pL89g Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 20 7 24 18 19
  6. (computing, computer science) 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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Computer science, Computing
    Sense id: en-circulation_time-en-noun-8L2U49NA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 20 7 24 18 19 Topics: computer, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, science, sciences
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Derived forms: blood circulation time

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        "(medicine) The time it takes for a fluid to complete its circuit of the body, especially the time it takes blood to circulate."
      ],
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        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1984, John L. Bintliff, European Social Evolution: Archaeological Perspectives, page 28",
          "text": "tracing the precise circulation routes and circulation time of exchange goods may offer finer detail on social questions, cf. Frankenstein and Rowlands ( 1978 ).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1984, Matthew Spriggs, Marxist Perspectives in Archaeology, page 92",
          "text": "This would seem to confirm our hypothesis that increasing circulation time reflects periods of declining supplies of bronze.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Kristian Kristiansen, Michael Rowlands, Social Transformations in Archaeology, page 93",
          "text": "Swords were classified according to degree of wear—that is, circulation time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Karl Marx, Capital",
          "text": "During its circulation time, capital does not function as productive capital, and therefore produces neither commodities nor surplus-value.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Simon Choat, Marx's 'Grundrisse'",
          "text": "We can think of the capitalist's desire to reduce circulation time in terms of turnover time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Teinosuke Otani, A Guide to Marxian Political Economy, page 295",
          "text": "Industrial capital requires —to a greater or lesser degree—time (circulation time) and costs (circulation costs) for the sale.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "The time in which capital is bound up the form of a commodity; the time in which a manufactured item is in use."
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        "(economics, archaeology) The time in which capital is bound up the form of a commodity; the time in which a manufactured item is in use."
      ],
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      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
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          "ref": "1996, Natural Climate Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales, page 359",
          "text": "Ê is scaled by the circulation time and a factor to remove the salinity dimension.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Hendrik M. van Aken, The Oceanic Thermohaline Circulation: An Introduction, page 96",
          "text": "The aging from the Southern Ocean to the North Pacific, expressed in a δ¹⁴C decrease of 90 to 100%, requires a circulation time from the Southern Ocean to the North Pacific of the order of 950 years.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Joseph Pedlosky, Ocean Circulation Theory, page 5",
          "text": "Assuming that the large-scale flow pattern is essentially stationary over the circulation time, L/U, of the interior flow, the ratio of the relative acceleration to the Coriolis acceleration in (1.2.1(, i.e., the ratio of the first to the second term in the momentum equation is:",
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        "The time it takes oceanwater, moving via currents, to move between two points, or to complete a cycle back to its starting point."
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        "(oceanography, geosciences) The time it takes oceanwater, moving via currents, to move between two points, or to complete a cycle back to its starting point."
      ],
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        "uncountable"
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          "ref": "1991, Klaas van't Riet, Johannes Tramper, Basic Bioreactor Design, page 403",
          "text": "This is the same order of magnitude as circulation time and mixing time for large fermenters.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Edward L. Paul, Victor A. Atiemo-Obeng, Suzanne M. Kresta, Handbook of Industrial Mixing: Science and Practice, page 729",
          "text": "As stated previously, both time to equilibrium and the competition between coalescence and dispersion depend on circulation time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Lyle Albright, Albright's Chemical Engineering Handbook, page 626",
          "text": "Every vessel has a distribution of circulation times.",
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        "The amount of time that a fluid takes to complete a cycle around a vessel in which it is being mixed or stirred."
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        [
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      "categories": [
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        "en:Computer science",
        "en:Computing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982, Cees J. van Spronsen, Lutz Richter, Microsystems: Architecture, Integration, and Use, page 24",
          "text": "The circulation time of a slot in front of an access window has been chosen as the basic unit of time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Per Brinch Hansen, Classic Operating Systems, page 94",
          "text": "The first record for the day gives a base time, while subsequent records for the day each have a circulation time associated with them; the circulation time is thus calculated by subtracting from the current log-on time the log-on time of the previous run by the same user.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Nabil Hasasneh, Ian Bell, Chris Jesshope, “Scalable and Paritionable Asynchronous Arbiter for Micro-threaded Chip Multiprocessors”, in Werner Grass, Bernhard Sick, Klaus Waldschmidt, editor, Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2006, page 266",
          "text": "This mechanism provides latency hiding by decoupling the micro-threaded processor from the token circulation time.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "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."
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        "(computing, computer science) 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."
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