Round-trip time

{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-004960",
  "term": "Round-trip time",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "The duration required for a signal or data packet to travel from a source to a destination and for an acknowledgment of its receipt to return to the source. This measurement includes propagation delays, processing delays at intermediate nodes, and queuing delays. Round-trip time is a key metric for network performance and latency.",
  "synonyms": [
    "round-trip delay time"
  ],
  "subject": "Electrical engineering",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Roundtrip-Zeit",
    "es": "tiempo de ida y vuelta",
    "fr": "temps d'aller-retour"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/round-trip-time/"
}