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noun

throughput

the amount of work or data processed within a given time period

In a sentence

Six example sentences with throughput, each labelled with its topic.

  • After sharding the queue, the team doubled throughput and finally cleared the overnight backlog before the morning standup.

    Startups

  • The bakery's new oven lifted throughput to nine hundred loaves a shift without adding a second baker.

    Business

  • Fiber to the cabinet raised throughput on the village network enough that four households could stream simultaneously.

    Technology

  • The emergency department measures throughput in patients per hour, and adding a triage nurse raised it by a fifth.

    Medicine

  • Container throughput at the port doubled in a decade, and the region's exporters stopped routing cargo through rivals.

    Economics

  • Airport throughput at the security lanes fell by half after the new scanners arrived, and the queues stretched into the terminal.

    Travel

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