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oversubscriptions

oversubscriptions is the plural of oversubscription.

Meaning of oversubscription

Noun

oversubscription (countable and uncountable, plural oversubscriptions)

  1. A subscription for more than is available.
  2. A multithreading technique involving an extra thread that runs tasks when all other threads are blocked.
    • This paper explores thread oversubscription, i.e., provisioning more threads than the available cores, to exploit CPU elasticity in the cloud.2021, Hang Huang, Jia Rao, Song Wu, Hai Jin, Hong Jiang, “Towards Exploiting CPU Elasticity via Efficient Thread Oversubscription”, in Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on...
  3. The practice of connecting multiple devices to the same switch port in a storage area network.
    • You can overcome the oversubscription of an ISL by adding an ISL between the switches to increase the bandwidth.2018, Jon Tate, Pall Beck, Hector Hugo Ibarra, Introduction to Storage Area Networks, page 171

Questions about oversubscriptions

What is oversubscriptions the plural of?
Oversubscriptions is the plural of oversubscription.

Words near oversubscriptions in the dictionary

  1. oversubscriber
  2. oversubscribers
  3. oversubscribes
  4. oversubscribing
  5. oversubscription
  6. oversubscriptions
  7. oversubsidize
  8. oversubsidized
  9. oversubsidizes
  10. oversubsidizing
  11. oversubstitution

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oversubscriptions (page history and authors); oversubscription (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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