Meaning of clearance time | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The amount of time it takes from the initiation of a process until it is completed.
   countable, uncountable
2. The amount of time required for a payment to be deposited to an account.
   countable, uncountable
3. The amount of time it takes for a pedestrian to reach the other side of a crosswalk.
   countable, uncountable
4. The amount of time from when a pilot requests the right to land at an airport and the tower allows the pilot to land.
   countable, uncountable
5. The amount of time it takes to get through customs.
   countable, uncountable
6. The amount of time it takes for a backordered item to arrive.
   countable, uncountable
7. The amount of time from when a fault is detected to when a circuit is automatically reopened.
   countable, uncountable
8. The amount of time it takes to empty something out.
   countable, uncountable
9. The amount of time to clear a road from traffic after an incident.
   countable, uncountable
10. The amount of time to clear a traffic queue when a signal changes.
    countable, uncountable
11. The amount of time to process all the individuals on a waiting list.
    countable, uncountable
12. The amount of time for a substance to be eliminated from a body, body part or organ.
    countable, uncountable
13. The amount of time it takes to clear a building or other public area in an emergency.
    countable, uncountable
14. The amount of time before a foreign substance in the air has dissipated.
    countable, uncountable
15. The amount of additional time (clearance) allotted in a situation.
    countable, uncountable

Examples

“By taking advantage of the clearance time after deposit of a check in one account to clear the account the check is drawn upon, and the continuing rotation of checks from one account to the other, or several different accounts, fictitional balances are caused.”

“The question of clearance time is important, too, in avoiding overdraft penalties.”

“Depending on local clearing house practices and distances of Federal Reserve banks from depository banks, average clearance time is generally from 1 to 3 days, and transfers to the Treasury have to b e geared to such variable time factors.”

“On a street with a median at least 6 feet in width, it may be desirable to allow only enough pedestrian clearance time on a given phase to clear the crossing from the curb to the median.”

“The pedestrian clearance time should be sufficient to allow a pedestrian crossing in the crosswalk who left the curb or shoulder during the WALKING PERSON ( symbolizing WALK ) signal indication to travel at a walking speed of 1.2 m ( 4 ft ) per second, to at least the far side of the traveled way or to a median of sufficient width for pedestians to wait.”

“However, as for crossing speed recommendation, taking clearance time into account, it is an important stipulation that the duration of a green light should guarantee pedestrians can cross at least half of the crosswalk [10].”

“And when the pilot asks for an expect further clearance time, he is usually told, "Oh, you can expect your filed route after such and such," the fix to which you have been cleared.”

“There should be a maximum clearance time of 45 minutes for any passenger on any international arriving flight on any day of the year at any time of the day.”

“In the case of the SS strategy or equivalently when there is no emergency supply alternative, expected backorders' clearance time reaches its maximum, exceeding 6 days, while, on the other hand, clearance time is critically lower when an alternative emergency supplier has been proactively contracted.”

“In Fig. 12.5.6A, for example, a fault occurring at point F is detected by the busbar protection which trips the circuit breaker. It is clear, therefore, that the fault will not be disconnected, except possibly by back-up protection involving a long clearance time.”

“Econometric models have been developed for incident clearance time, which will help freeway incident management agencies to rationalize the deployment of their incident-response resources.”

“The study finding will prove useful for any agency or company involved in the direct removal of nonhazardous traffic incidents that seeks legislative or interagency support removal activites or a description of alternative removal strategies to minimize clearance time.”

“On the other hand, WSP measured clearance time based on when all lanes were clear.”

“The clearance time of a vehicle starting from within a queue can generally being composed of two time intervals.”

“If not so, the signal turns to red without extending green light time for north-bound and clearance time passes.”

“In this study, we categorized list size into two groups, with 1 month as the dividing cut-off, reasoning that registration on a wait list with a clearance time of 1 month or less would allow the patient to undergo surgery within the target time (for semiurgent patients) of 6 weeks.”

“We varied three other patient-level factors that might have affected time to surgery: priority of registration on the surgical wait list, clearance time at time of registration on the wait list, and weekly number of inpatient and emergency procedures [141].”

“In 1995 it was found that the clearance time ( the time required to remove all patients from waiting lists if clearance rates remained constant and patients could be treated at any hospital ) for category 1 patients (those for whom admission is desirable within 30 days) was 0.6 months, with 27 per cent of patients waiting over 30 days as at the census date; […]”

“It should be emphasized, however, that if the drug detection methods are only marginal, the effects of increased doses on clearance time can be quite marked (Fig 4).”

“The results revealed that sleep infusions in both groups were associated with a statistically significant prolongation of acid clearance time. In minutes, the absolute clearance time was nearly doubled in both groups.”

“Another factor of interest for dental caries is the individual oral clearance time, i.e., the time it takes for a person to eliminate the food from the mouth without respect to various properties of the food itself.”

“Each storey of the building is evacuated on to the stairs in not more than 2.5 min. (This average clearance time was proposed after an evacuation experience during a fire in the Empire Palace Theatre in Edinburgh in 1911;)”

“It also established "clearance time" as a regulatory concept.”

“To get a better idea of why the radon concentration takes a long time to return to a steady state, despite the large ventilation capacity of the 16,000-cfm ventilation fans, analysis was made of data from a test conducted to measure clearance time of an inert tracer after sudden injection into the intake portal of the mine .”

“The exhaust configuration has little bearing on clearance time.”

“Increased airflow is an option to decrease clearance time.”

“The preferred clearance time will vary, depending on the situation and the person. People may want more clearance time for fast-moving traffic than they do for slow traffic, and cautious people may want a longer clearance time than do high risk takers.”

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