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back-pressure

back-pressure is the alternative form of backpressure.

Meaning of backpressure

Noun

backpressure (countable and uncountable, plural backpressures)

  1. Pressure that is opposed to the desired flow of a fluid (through a duct).
    • If the back pressure is decreased (p_b) an external expansion occurs, but the duct flow is unchanged. If the back pressure is increased, shocks appear external to the duct (p_c).1999, William F. Hughes, John A. Brighton, Schaum's Outline of Fluid Dynamics, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 195
  2. The buildup of unprocessed data due to a bottleneck; a technique to control the flow of data between producers and consumers.
    • Samsara has tuneables to ensure that back-pressure can be applied so that consumers can process data at the rate they are comfortable with.2018, Jyotiswarup Raiturkar, Hands-On Software Architecture with Golang: Design and architect highly scalable and robust applications using Go, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN

Forms of back-pressure

pluralback-pressures

Questions about back-pressure

What is back-pressure the alternative form of?
Back-pressure is the alternative form of backpressure.

Words near back-pressure in the dictionary

  1. back-pedal
  2. back-pocket
  3. back-pocketed
  4. back-pocketing
  5. back-pockets
  6. back-pressure
  7. back-rank mate
  8. back-rank mates
  9. back-rapper
  10. back-rappers
  11. back-reef

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