throughput
noun
through·put
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Definition of throughput
Examples of throughput in a Sentence
The network can handle large throughputs.
finding ways to increase throughput
Recent Examples on the Web
Figueroa says this could mean a throughput of 9 to 10 gigabytes per second in optimal conditions. — Wired, "Wi-Fi 6 Will Be Here Soon. What Is It?," 29 Aug. 2019 For example, Formula E has pushed to increase the power throughput of its vehicles to 900 volts, as much as three times as high as current electric cars on the street. — David Z. Morris, Fortune, "Formula E Racing Is Shaping the Future of Electric Cars," 16 July 2019 This is a dual-band model offering maximum throughput up to 574Mbps on the 2.4GHz band and up to 1,201Mbps on the 5GHz band. — Michael Brown, PCWorld, "TP-Link goes all in with Wi-Fi 6 home networking gear, offering five products in 2019," 7 Jan. 2019 By 2010, yearly cargo traffic had fallen to 880,000 TEUs, or twenty-foot equivalent units, the standard measurement for container throughput—a paltry fraction of the capacity of Europe’s biggest ports. — By Vivienne Walt, Fortune, "Boxed In at the Docks: How a Lifeline From China Changed Greece," 22 July 2019 Six OneWeb satellites were launched atop a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana earlier this year to test throughput and latency in a pilot project connecting schools in Alaska, Ecuador, Honduras, Rwanda, Nepal and Kyrgyzstan. — William Harwood, CBS News, "Space-based internet the focus of new OneWeb Florida satellite factory," 22 July 2019 That’s not a lot of throughput, but as a robotic outpost its bandwidth needs are small. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "The Pentagon Wants Its Own Tiny Space Station," 5 July 2019 Pipeline company Energy Transfer LP expanded its vast network in 2018, as rising shale production increased throughput domestically and stoked exports. — Fortune, "Energy Transfer," 1 July 2019 State production analysts in the Department of Natural Resources expected the average daily throughput to decline in their latest projection, but not this much. — Elwood Brehmer, Anchorage Daily News, "Alaska North Slope oil production is about to be at its lowest fiscal-year level since pipeline startup," 28 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'throughput.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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throughput
noun
English Language Learners Definition of throughput
technical
: the amount of material, data, etc., that enters and goes through something (such as a machine or system)
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