circulation time

Meanings

1. The amount of time required for mud to circulate from the suction pit, enter into the wellbore and then return to the surface.
2. The time it takes for a fluid to complete its circuit of the body, especially the time it takes blood to circulate.
3. The time in which capital is bound up the form of a commodity; the time in which a manufactured item is in use.
4. The time it takes oceanwater, moving via currents, to move between two points, or to complete a cycle back to its starting point.
5. The amount of time that a fluid takes to complete a cycle around a vessel in which it is being mixed or stirred.
6. The amount of time that elapses in a multiprocess system from the time when a process is loaded for execution until the time when the same process is next loaded for more processing.