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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The time required for an exponential system to return 1/e (0.368) of its initial value of equilibrium after perturbation.
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- noun physics The characteristic time for a system to reach an
equilibrium condition after adisturbance - noun medicine The time taken for a
muscle to revert to itsresting state after being used
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- noun the time constant of an exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance
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