recovery time
Rest after injury
Recovery time is the period needed to return to normal after exertion, illness, injury, or strain.
Athletes track recovery time between workouts.
Surgeons estimate recovery time for procedures.
In technical contexts, it measures how quickly a system restores function: The server's recovery time after the outage was under two minutes.
Shorter is generally better.
- recuperationGradual return to health
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
- healingRestoration of health
- mendingRestoring damaged items
- convalescencePost-illness healing phase
bed rest · bounce-back · back on your feet · rest · taking it easy · rest day · full strength · duration · regeneration · postoperative care · timeline · therapy · physical therapy · cooldown · resilience · repair · rejuvenation · latency
- rehabilitationrehab, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, inpatient rehab
- medical stagesacute phase, late stage, early-stage, advanced stage, final stage
- prognosispoor prognosis, favorable, unfavorable, guarded, grim
- fault toleranceredundancy, failover, failsafe, fail-safe, hot swap
- security metricsfalse positives, false negatives
- fitnessfitness, exercise, gym, workout, running
time, recover, recovery, recovering, recovered, recuperate, recoverable, recoverability