i/o
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.11 in modern English
2
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
in/out, input/output (descriptive of data flow)
prep
Initialism of instead of.
Example Sentences
- "In addition to the synchronous blocking I/O explored in the last two chapters, NIO also supports nonblocking I/O."
- "This feels about right, as does the idea that half a second will be taken up just doing disk I/O related to your page. The final thrust of Bob's argument is that if you strip away all disk I/O (and he cites the move to SSD persistent storage), we'll shift away from interpreted languages such as Ruby and PHP and back to Java."
- "It reduces I/O latency, for selected eligible I/Os, to the point that z/OS no longer needs to undispatch the running task."
- "i/o devices are pieces of hardware used to communicate with a computer."
Usage
Inflected Forms
I/Os (plural)
IO (alternative)