"hitting time" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: hitting times [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} hitting time (countable and uncountable, plural hitting times)
  1. (mathematics, stochastic process) The first moment in time in which a given process "hits" a given subset of the state space. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Mathematics Synonyms: first hit time
    Sense id: en-hitting_time-en-noun-cjUrn2lD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: mathematics, sciences

Inflected forms

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