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  2. Dwell time - Wikipedia

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    Dwell time may refer to: Dwell time (filtration), the time a fluid remains in contact with an active filter medium. Dwell time (GNSS) Dwell time (information retrieval), the time a user remains at a search result after a click; Dwell time (military), the time personnel spend in home station between deployments; Dwell time (radar), the time that ...

  3. Dwell time (information retrieval) - Wikipedia

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    In information retrieval, dwell time denotes the time which a user spends viewing a document after clicking a link on a search engine results page (SERP).. Dwell time is the duration between when a user clicks on a search engine result, and when the user returns from that result, or is otherwise seen to have left the result.

  4. Dwell time (transportation) - Wikipedia

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    Dwell times are particularly important for a rail system. [3] Rail headways increase where the dwell times are high. Dwell times are an important focus for rail systems; a reduction in a dwell time can often result in a reduced headway. Passengers who want to board and alight from a train need time to do so.

  5. Filtration - Wikipedia

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    Filtration is a more efficient method for the separation of mixtures than decantation but is much more time-consuming. If very small amounts of solution are involved, most of the solution may be soaked up by the filter medium. An alternative to filtration is centrifugation.

  6. Dwell time (military) - Wikipedia

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    In the military, dwell time is the amount of time that service members spend in their home station between deployments to war zones. It is used to calculate the deploy-to-dwell ratio. Dwell time is designed to allow service members a mental and physical break from combat and to give them time with their families.

  7. Troll - Wikipedia

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    In Old Norse sources, trolls are said to dwell in isolated mountains, rocks, and caves, sometimes live together (usually as father-and-daughter or mother-and-son), and are rarely described as helpful or friendly. [2] The Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál describes an encounter between an unnamed troll woman and the 9th-century skald Bragi ...

  8. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    Afrikaans – as die perde horings kry ("when horses grow horns"); Albanian – ne 36 gusht ("on the thirty-sixth of August"); Arabic has a wide range of idioms differing from a region to another.

  9. Lock time - Wikipedia

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    Point 2, 3, and 4 describe the time from start of ignition until the bullet leaves the barrel, and can be summarized as the bullet dwell time. [13] In most modern fullbore centerfire rifle cartridges the total dwell time lies around 1.0 to 1.5 milliseconds, while the slower .22 Long Rifle round has a dwell time of around 2.3 milliseconds when ...