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throttler en · NOUN

Etymology

From throttle + -er.

Meanings

  1. (figuratively, sometimes) One who or that which throttles.
    • […] a crowd of ragged, discharged soldiers, who, having served a government which takes and never gives, returning home without pay, took vengeance on the legalized throttlers of travel and trade. Missionary Review of the World; 1878-1939 (volume 20, part 2, page 723)
    • Current Blocked Async I/O Requests is the number of current asynchronous I/O requests blocked by bandwidth throttler. 1996, James J. Townsend, Web Development with Microsoft Resources, page 191:

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