Usually means: Duration a substance remains localized.
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  1. residence time: Merriam-Webster
  2. residence time: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. residence time: Vocabulary.com
  4. residence time: Wiktionary
  5. residence time: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. residence time: Dictionary.com
  7. Residence time (disambiguation), Residence time (fluid dynamics), Residence time (statistics), Residence time: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. residence time: Rhymezone
  9. residence time: FreeDictionary.org
  10. residence time: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. residence time: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. residence time: Encyclopedia

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Common Hearth and Heating Terms (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  (hydrology) The average time for which a particular molecule of water will remain in a body of water.

Similar:
half-life, relaxation time, flowtime, pathline, traveltime, light equation, hydraulic radius, hydrokinetics, hydrometry, storativity, more...

Opposite:
turnover rate, flow rate, throughput rate

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Similar:
half-life, relaxation time, flowtime, pathline, traveltime, light equation, hydraulic radius, hydrokinetics, hydrometry, storativity, more...

Opposite:
turnover rate, flow rate, throughput rate



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