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The amount of material, work, or data processed by a system in a given time.
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- data throughput
- production throughput
- sustained throughput
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Data throughput fell while individual message delays remained nearly unchanged.
The factory’s production throughput depended on the slowest inspection stage.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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