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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 pointer
  2. back porch
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  4. back post
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  6. back pressure
  7. back projection
  8. back projections
  9. back rank
  10. back ranks
  11. back road

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