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undersubscription en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From under- + subscription.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The subscription of significantly less than is available.
   • They may increase the size of the placing (green-shoe option) or decrease it in case of undersubscription. 2013, Mario Levis, Silvio Vismara, Handbook of Research on IPOs, →ISBN, page 207:
   • There were no instances of undersubscriptions in SDL auctions of 28 states as against 18 such instances last year. 2013, State Finances, page 57:
   • Therefore, in the presence of an underwriter any risks associated with undersubscription are shifted from the company to the underwriter. 2016, Craig Deegan, Financial Accounting, →ISBN:
2. (countable, uncountable) The employment of more ports or bandwidth than necessary to ensure that network communication does not face delays.
   • End-to-end QoS along with appropriate bandwidth provisioning specifically for Intra-Cluster Communication Signaling (ICCS) is required. Overprovisioning and undersubscription of bandwidth is recommended. 2014, Akhil Behl, CCIE Collaboration Quick Reference, →ISBN:
3. (countable, uncountable) The failure to provide sufficient threads in a multithreaded application.
   • When there are not enough running threads to optimally exploit available PEs undersubscription occurs, resulting in a waste of performance. 2012, Victor Pankratius, Michael Philippsen, Multicore Software Engineering, Performance and Tools, →ISBN:

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