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beamtime

noun

Etymology

From beam + time.

  1. derived from *deh₂y-✻
  2. derived from *deh₂imō✻
  3. inherited from *tīmô✻
  4. inherited from *tīmō✻
  5. inherited from tīma — “time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”
  6. inherited from tyme
  7. compounded as beamtime — “beam + time”

Definitions

  1. The amount of time allocated to a researcher for use of a beam of particles from a…

    The amount of time allocated to a researcher for use of a beam of particles from a particular source.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for beamtime. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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