undersubscription
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The employment of more ports or bandwidth than necessary to ensure that network communication does not face delays.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The failure to provide sufficient threads in a multithreaded application.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "There were no instances of undersubscriptions in SDL auctions of 28 states as against 18 such instances last year."
- "They may increase the size of the placing (green-shoe option) or decrease it in case of undersubscription."
- "Therefore, in the presence of an underwriter any risks associated with undersubscription are shifted from the company to the underwriter."
- "End-to-end QoS along with appropriate bandwidth provisioning specifically for Intra-Cluster Communication Signaling (ICCS) is required. Overprovisioning and undersubscription of bandwidth is recommended."
- "When there are not enough running threads to optimally exploit available PEs undersubscription occurs, resulting in a waste of performance."
Etymology
From under- + subscription.