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Transit time may refer to:
- Human gastrointestinal transit time in biology.
- A term in ergodic theory.
- The time necessary to travel a given distance. Used in radar.
- Sun transit time, the time at which the sun passes over the observer's meridian line.
- The transit time factor for the acceleration voltage, used in accelerator physics.
Usage examples of "transit time".
Ming the Merciless had a problem, mainly a brown-out on the Central Line which was knocking fifteen seconds off transit time station to station.
There was no free-fall, since the room was able to maneuver within Earth's gravitational field, now, but the transit time was still there, which was why people used the more spacious and comfortable canisters for traveling long temporal distances.
Sigma Draconis and Matapan, on the other hand, were each the next best thing to five light-centuries from Manticore, while Phoenix was over seven hundred light-years away, although in terms of actual transit time all of them were equally close.
At the end of this time, if nothing has gone wrong, his personal memory of the period will be dumped and a new interval will begin, so that from his point of view, Null Boundary's transit time will seem to require only ninety seconds, though years have elapsed.
She had to hold their forward speed to 10 kph to avoid outrunning the effect, but the loss of a minute or two in transit time was a cheap price to pay for the relative safety and control.
An hour of that was allowed for transit time, and Peter wanted to go over the morning's work while the details were still fresh in everyone's minds.
If we were to move them over to Seljuk, for example, they'd be over a hundred and fifty light-years closer to Silesia, which would reduce their transit time by almost three weeks if we decided to commit them.
Going by way of Dresden added almost three weeks to the direct transit time!
Neither of the Roughnecks were configured to carry the bulky missile pods, and the only interstellar bulk carriers in the system had been two enormous and ridiculously slow old tubs which would have more than doubled their transit time to Cerberus.