storage time

noun

The total amount of time that a product spends in materials storage, in inventory that is in-process, or in an inventory of finished goods.

Meanings

nounstorage time (countable and uncountable, plural storage times)

plural storage times

  1. countableuncountablebusinessThe total amount of time that a product spends in materials storage, in inventory that is in-process, or in an inventory of finished goods.
  2. countableuncountablebusinessThe amount of time that an electronic device can store energy.

    In this article, we report the first long-term measurements of storage time at room temperature.

    1995, W. Xie, G.M. Johnson, Y.Wang, J.A. Cooper, Jr., J.W. Palmour, L.A. Lipkin, M.R. Melloch, C. H. Carter, Jr., “Cell Design and Peripheral Logic for Nonvolatile Random Access Memories in 6H-SiC”, in Herb Goronkin, Umesh Kumar Mishra, editor, Compound Semiconductors 1994, page 395
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    Each device has its own storage time which may vary from device to device and again it varies with the magnitude of anode current .

    2005, PC Sen, Modern Power Electronics, page 110

    Energy density and storage time are the key parameters to be considered when disucssing storage systems.

    2013, J. Jensen, Energy Storage
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