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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Output or production, as of a computer program, over a period of time.

Wiktionary

  1. n. operations The rate of production; the rate at which something can be processed.
  2. n. networking The rate at which data is transferred through a system.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. output relative to input; the amount passing through a system from input to output (especially of a computer program over a period of time)

Etymologies

  1. From through +‎ put. (Wiktionary)

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  • chained_bear Wow. This word is fairly barfmaking. May 26, 2009

  • middlesmith Universities have begun using this word to describe a department's number of grads. At my old school, the philosophy department is suffering from low throughput and may get axed. May 26, 2009

  • rolig "Here at Costco it is possible to see the enormous throughput of the economy—its capacity to mobilize resources and energy and turn out waste. One store manager, on the floor for fourteen years, tells me he has seen eight pallets of paper towels move out the door in a single day. . . . I can hear the sound of chain saws laying off as falling trees cut the air somewhere high in the Cascades."

    — Steven Stoll, "Fear of Fallowing: The Specter of a No-Growth World," Harper's Magazine (March 2008). Mar 13, 2008

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