Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Of the usage of a rocket engine, the mean value of the amount of time spent by each gas molecule or atom within the chamber volume.

  2. (countable, uncountable)The time period in which personnel may remain in a restricted area of a reactor before accumulating a certain permissible occupational dose.

  3. (countable, dated, obsolete, uncountable)Something that halts or arrests the passage of time.

Examples

23 sentences
  1. Did you stay a long time?

  2. I promise to stay longer next time.

    deIch verspreche, daß ich nächstesmal länger bleibe. — Waldelfe

  3. This is the hotel where we stayed that time.

    ruЭто гостиница, в которой мы тогда остановились. — sharptoothed

    deIn diesem Hotel haben wir damals gewohnt. — Waldelfe

  4. Let's not stay at the same hotel we stayed at last time.

    deLaß uns nicht wieder das Hotel vom letzten Mal nehmen! — Waldelfe

  5. This is where I stayed the last time I came to Boston.

Forms

plural: stay times
Singularstay time
Pluralstay times

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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