throttler en · NOUN
Etymology
From throttle + -er.
Meanings
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(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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| throttlers | Number=Plur | lexicographic |