return time
When you're back
Return time is the duration between when something leaves and when it comes back, or the scheduled moment of arrival back at a starting point.
In technical contexts, it measures how long a system takes to restore to its original state: The satellite's return time to this position is 90 minutes.
In everyday use: What's your return time from the trip?
- oscillationRepeated back-and-forth movement
- tick tockAlternating clock sounds
- intervalDuration between two points
- recurrenceReturn of something previous
- cycleRepeating sequence of events
full circle · damping · turnaround · round trip · resilience · regeneration · feedback loop · frequency · resonance · periodicity · timetable · rescheduling · equilibrium · steady state · rotation · deadline · harmonic motion · swing back
- stochastic processesrandom variable, random variables, martingale, white noise, irreducibility
- random walkssteps, path, trajectory, recurrence, transience
- lunch breaklunch break, lunch hour, lunchroom, noon, midday