dead time
noun[CorU]
ukustimewhen there is little or noactivity:
Investors oftentreatbearmarketsasdeadtime,figuringthat there's nothing to do until theeconomyimproves.
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Halfway house time pending sentencing can also sometimes bedeadtime.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some also use the color green, in honor of the new foliage emerging after the longdeadtimeof winter.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The mixing of the solutions determines thedeadtimeof the instrument, which is about a millisecond.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The service utilisesdeadtimein the studios coupled with the mixing skills of the facility's in-house and assistant engineers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The time between the stop event and the following start event becomesdeadtimeduring which the signal is not being observed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Live time,deadtime, and total time are thus measured, not estimated.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The result is a performance which has nodeadtime.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.That limits how often a measurement can be made (deadtime).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The rationale for the rule change was to help reducedeadtimein the game.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Additionally, monitoring is performed to establish whether the valve has moved out of its end position within a defined period of time (deadtime).
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