What is "time constants"

Usage examples of "time constants".

Fundamentally, the Message was continuing on the same frequencies, bandpasses, time constants, and polarization and phase modulation.

But it seems to me that we can do something to enhance the likelihood of success in such a search, and that the ordinary pursuit of radio astronomy is not quite the same as an explicit search of certain stars, frequencies, bandpasses, and time constants for extraterrestrial intelligence.

I was about to object that the time constants would not allow the rapid collapse and erection of a shroud, but Saul's expression warned me that he had an answer ready.

Starship computers had to be able to project courses through multiple bubble universes, each with varied space-time constants.