backpressure

English

Alternative forms

  • back pressure

Etymology

From back +‎ pressure.

Noun

backpressure (countable and uncountable, plural backpressures)

  1. (fluid dynamics) Pressure that is opposed to the flow of a fluid.
  2. (computing) The buildup of unprocessed data due to a bottleneck.

Translations

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.