retention time

Definitions

Construction

• The length of time a wastewater is retained in a clarification tank for settling of suspended solids.

Electronics

• The time interval during which a storage medium, such as RAM, a hard disk, a smart card, or an optical disc, can reliably retain data. Also called retention period (2), or storage time (1).
• synonymretention period
• The time interval during which data, records, files, archives, or the like must be stored.

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Contexts for “retention time”

4 definitions in context
• Construction
• Electronics