dwell

/dwɛl/noun

A stretch of time during which a machine or system stays in one particular state without changing.

Example sentence

“The conveyor has a short dwell at each station so the parts can be inspected.”

As a verb, 'dwell on' something means to keep thinking or talking about it, usually longer than is healthy. The engineering noun here is specialist usage.

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