Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

i/o bound

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English

Syllables: i/o bound
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of total system throughput, being limited by the input/output rate, rather than by processing speed of the CPU.

Frequently Paired Words

CPU-bound

Questions

What does i/o bound mean?: Of total system throughput, being limited by the input/output rate, rather than by processing speed of the CPU.

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