The amount of material contained within a process vessel operating continuously. It is applied to liquids and solids such as materials contained within distillation columns and furnaces. Liquid hold-up is used in two-phase flow in which the liquid phase is retained in a system at any given time when the gas phase is moving faster than the liquid phase. No-slip hold-up is used for two-phase flow in which both liquid and gas phases are moving with the same velocity. The hold-up can be determined by measuring the gas fraction using capacitance probes, optical probes, electrical conductivity measurements, and devices based on x-ray or gamma ray attenuation.