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flashcrowds

flashcrowds is the plural of flashcrowd.

Meaning of flashcrowd

Noun

flashcrowd (plural flashcrowds)

  1. The large number of people brought by the sudden increase in popularity of an Internet site or resource due to an event or link from another site.
    • We now focus on the system's reaction to the sudden popularity of a single (new) file. This phenomenon is also called the flashcrowd effect.2004 December 18, Johan Pouwelse, “The BitTorrent P2P file-sharing system”, in The Register

Questions about flashcrowds

What is flashcrowds the plural of?
Flashcrowds is the plural of flashcrowd.

Words near flashcrowds in the dictionary

  1. flashcards
  2. flashcart
  3. flashcarts
  4. flashcore
  5. flashcrowd
  6. flashcrowds
  7. flashcube
  8. flashcubes
  9. flashdamp
  10. flashdisk
  11. flashdisks

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