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06:15 Feb 19, 2006 |
French to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Energy / Power Generation / Electronics | |||||
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| Selected response from: Theresa Lynch United States Local time: 03:26 | ||||
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3 +5 | dead time |
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5 | down time |
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dead time Explanation: http://rkb.home.cern.ch/rkb/PH14pp/node41.html Absolute dead time is a span of time during which a detector, or an associated readout system, is unable to record new information. Relative dead time is the average ratio of dead time to total time. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2006-02-19 07:36:31 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- The millisecond portion of the latency time (dead time) between adjacent data values... http://image.msfc.nasa.gov/ChrisDocs/UDFPMan/IDFData.html |
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