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Time to Live

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Time to Live - (TTL) A field in the Internet Protocol header which indicates how many more hops this packet should be allowed to make before being discarded or returned.
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And not only were these four who had so short a time to live, the first to whom the dread of being burnt occurred, but they were, throughout, the most importunate of all: for they could be plainly heard, notwithstanding the great thickness of the walls, crying that the wind set that way, and that the flames would shortly reach them; and calling to the officers of the jail to come and quench the fire from a cistern which was in their yard, and full of water.
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
It is not said how long the Prince stayed with the Giant, but one day the latter came to him and said he would now take him over to the mainland out of the island, for he himself had no long time to live.
The Yellow Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew View in context
He used to think that fifty years sounded like a long time to live together, but now it seemed to him that they might pass in a flash.
Ethan Frome by Wharton, Edith View in context
 
 
 
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