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ARRIVAL TIME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does arrival time mean?
• ARRIVAL TIME (noun)
The noun ARRIVAL TIME has 1 sense:
1. the time at which a public conveyance is scheduled to arrive at a given destination
Familiarity information: ARRIVAL TIME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The time at which a public conveyance is scheduled to arrive at a given destination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
arrival time; time of arrival
Hypernyms ("arrival time" is a kind of...):
point; point in time (an instant of time)
Context examples
Because large particles travel more slowly than small ones, the masses of the ionized particles are determined by measuring their arrival time at the end of the tube
(Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry, NCI Thesaurus)
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