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fanout

fanout noun: the degree to which something fans out, or splits into separate sections.

Noun

fanout (countable and uncountable, plural fanouts)

  1. The degree to which something fans out, or splits into separate sections.
    • B+ trees have very high fanout, which reduces the number of I/O operations required to find an element in the tree.
    • The fanout of a logic gate output is the number of gate inputs to which it is connected.

Forms of fanout

pluralfanouts

Origin of fanout

From fan + out, from the phrasal verb.

Questions about fanout

What does fanout mean?
Fanout means the degree to which something fans out, or splits into separate sections.
What part of speech is fanout?
Fanout is a noun.
What is the plural of fanout?
The plural of fanout is fanouts.

Words near fanout in the dictionary

  1. fanorona
  2. fanos
  3. fanouropita
  4. fanouropitas
  5. fanouropites
  6. fanout
  7. fanouts
  8. fanpage
  9. fanpages
  10. fanpetal
  11. fanpetals

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