Throughput vs Productivity - What's the difference?
throughput | productivity |
(operations) The rate of production; the rate at which something can be processed.
* The factory managed a throughput of 120 units per hour.
* 1927 , Harald Nielsen, "Distillation of Carbonaceous Materials" [http://www.google.com/patents?id=uPpbAAAAEBAJ&dq=throughput&jtp=1], US Patent 1886262, line 70:
(networking) The rate at which data is transferred through a system.
the state of being productive, fertile or efficient
the rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers
the rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land
As nouns the difference between throughput and productivity
is that throughput is the rate of production; the rate at which something can be processed while productivity is the state of being productive, fertile or efficient.throughput
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Alternative forms
* thruputNoun
(en noun)- "if the rate of heating is substantially reduced, not only is the throughput of the apparatus diminished and the cost of the process increased, but the properties of the resultant coke are detrimentally affected."
