"time-of-flight" meaning in English

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Noun

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  1. Used attributively to describe various processes, devices, etc, that use the time an object or light takes to travel a certain distance. See Derived terms. Derived forms: time-of-flight detector, time-of-flight mass spectrometry, time-of-flight mass spectroscopy, time-of-flight method
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