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leaky bucket

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.02 in modern English

Syllables
leaky buck-et
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A counter or variable that is incremented whenever an event of interest occurs, and also periodically decremented; used in algorithms to check whether events will gradually overflow the system's capacity, for example in a telecommunication network.

Inflected Forms

leaky buckets (plural)

Phrases

token bucket

Frequently Paired Words

token bucket

Questions

What does leaky bucket mean?
A counter or variable that is incremented whenever an event of interest occurs, and also periodically decremented; used in algorithms to check whether events will gradually overflow the system's capacity, for example in a telecommunication network.

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