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leaky bucket

leaky bucket noun: a counter or variable that is incremented whenever an event of interest occurs, and also periodically decremented; used in algorithms to check whether events will gradually overflow the system's capacity, for example in a telecommunication network.

Noun

leaky bucket (plural leaky buckets)

  1. A counter or variable that is incremented whenever an event of interest occurs, and also periodically decremented; used in algorithms to check whether events will gradually overflow the system's capacity, for example in a telecommunication network.

Forms of leaky bucket

pluralleaky buckets

Questions about leaky bucket

What does leaky bucket mean?
Leaky bucket means a counter or variable that is incremented whenever an event of interest occurs, and also periodically decremented; used in algorithms to check whether events will gradually overflow the system's capacity, for example in a telecommunication network.
What part of speech is leaky bucket?
Leaky bucket is a noun.
What is the plural of leaky bucket?
The plural of leaky bucket is leaky buckets.

Words near leaky bucket in the dictionary

  1. leaky
  2. leaky abstraction
  3. leaky abstractions
  4. leaky brain syndrome
  5. leaky brain syndromes
  6. leaky bucket
  7. leaky buckets
  8. leaky gut syndrome
  9. leaky rectified linear unit
  10. leaky weir
  11. leal

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