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Time-of-flight — The time of flight (TOF) describes the method used to measure the time that it takes for a particle, object or stream to reach a detector while traveling over a known distance. In time of flight mass spectrometry, ions are accelerated by an… … Wikipedia
Time of flight diffraction ultrasonics — Time of Flight Diffraction (TOFD) method of Ultrasonic inspection is a very sensitive and accurate method for nondestructive testing of welds for defects. TOFD is a computerised system that was invented in the UK in the 1970s for the nuclear… … Wikipedia
Time of flight detector — A time of flight (TOF) detector is a particle detector which can discriminate between a lighter and a heavier elementary particle of same momentum using their time of flight between two scintillators. The first of the scintillators activates a… … Wikipedia
time of flight — In artillery, mortar, and naval gunfire support, the time in seconds from the instant a weapon is fired, launched, or released from the delivery vehicle or weapons system to the instant it strikes or detonates … Military dictionary
Neutron time-of-flight scattering — Science with Neutrons Foundations Neutron temperature Flux · Radiation … Wikipedia
Flight 19 — Artist s depiction of five Avengers. Occurrence summary Date December 5, 1945 … Wikipedia
Flight attendant — Flight attendants or cabin crew (historically known as stewards, air hosts/hostesses, or stewardesses) are members of an aircrew employed by airlines to ensure the safety and comfort of the passengers aboard commercial flights as well as on… … Wikipedia
Flight planning — A Tarom Boeing 737 300 and United Airlines Boeing 777 200 taxiing to depart London Heathrow Airport. Flight planning is the process of producing a flight plan to describe a proposed aircraft flight. It involves two … Wikipedia
Flight spare — When constructing equipment for a space mission, it is common to build a copy of each piece of equipment.This is known as the flight spare. This is built to the same specifications as the original equipment (the flight model ) and can be… … Wikipedia
Time to digital converter — In electronic instrumentation and signal processing, a time to digital converter (abbreviated TDC) is a device for converting a signal of sporadic pulses into a digital representation of their time indices. In other words, a TDC outputs the time… … Wikipedia
