RESIDENCE TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does residence time mean? 

• RESIDENCE TIME (noun)
  The noun RESIDENCE TIME has 1 sense:

1. the period of time spent in a particular place

  Familiarity information: RESIDENCE TIME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESIDENCE TIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The period of time spent in a particular place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("residence time" is a kind of...):

continuance; duration (the period of time during which something continues)

 Context examples 

An estimate of the volume of distribution at steady state, which is the mean residence time (MRT) extrapolated to infinity times steady state clearance (MRTINF*Clss), based on the last observed concentration.

(Observed Steady State Volume of Distribution, NCI Thesaurus)

The mean residence time (MRT) extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration.

(Observed Mean Residence Time Infinity, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The observed mean residence time (MRT) extrapolated to infinity.

(Observed Mean Residence Time Infinity, NCI Thesaurus)

As the Earth’s climate continues to warm, tree growth will continue to accelerate, but the length of time that trees store carbon, the so-called carbon residence time, will diminish.

(Amount of carbon stored in forests reduced as climate warms, University of Cambridge)

The residence time (presence) of MJO clouds have shortened over the Indian Ocean by 3—4 days and increased over the west Pacific by 5—6 days.

(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)