Noun: time constant tIm kón-stunt
- (electronics) the time required for the current or voltage in a circuit to rise or fall exponentially through approximately 63 per cent of its amplitude
"The engineer calculated the time constant to design the filter"
- The ratio of the inductance of a circuit in henries to its resistance in ohms
"The time constant of the RC circuit was 0.5 seconds"
Derived forms: time constants
Type of: interval, ratio, time interval
Encyclopedia: Time constant