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leaky buckets

leaky buckets is the plural of leaky bucket.

Meaning of leaky bucket

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.

Questions about leaky buckets

What is leaky buckets the plural of?
Leaky buckets is the plural of leaky bucket.

Words near leaky buckets in the dictionary

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

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