circulation time
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The amount of time required for mud to circulate from the suction pit, enter into the wellbore and then return to the surface.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The time it takes for a fluid to complete its circuit of the body, especially the time it takes blood to circulate.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The time in which capital is bound up the form of a commodity; the time in which a manufactured item is in use.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The time it takes oceanwater, moving via currents, to move between two points, or to complete a cycle back to its starting point.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "To use this solution for any value of circulation time, we introduce below the adjusted circulation time."
- "The engineer requires knowledge of the circulation time if the drilling mud is to be changed."
- "Since the deeper annulus temperature is lower than that of the corresponding deeper formation, the longer the circulation time of drilling fluid is, the more heat in the deeper formation is taken away by the drilling fluid."
- "Table II shows the results of measurements of the diastolic volume of the heart, the stroke output of the heart, the mechanical work of the heart, the circulation time and calculated increase in mechanical efficiency of the heart as well as the venous pressure in the systemic circulation in cases of heart failure."
- "No correlation has been found between blood pressure and circulation time in either healthy or diseased individuals (Blumgart & Weiss 1927, Olsone 1941, Kerpel-Fronius 1950)."
- "The time measured by us can, thus, be regarded as the true "lymph circulation time"."