Throughput vs Throughflow - What's the difference?
throughput | throughflow |
(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.
(hydrology) The movement of water horizontally beneath the land surface, usually when the soil is completely saturated.
As nouns the difference between throughput and throughflow
is that throughput is (operations) the rate of production; the rate at which something can be processed while throughflow is (hydrology) the movement of water horizontally beneath the land surface, usually when the soil is completely saturated.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."