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cycle time

noun

Definitions

  1. The total elapsed time to complete an operation or set of operations.

    • Order cycle time can now be minutes from when the customer starts entering an order to when it is visible to the warehouse.
    • Production cycle time is not as important as the time spent in transit.
    • Design cycle time for an all-new state-of-the-art compressor is still years from go-ahead to readiness for manufacture.

  2. the time equipment takes to complete one cycle of operation, from start to finish

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cycle time. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA