Traffic vs Erlang - What's the difference?
traffic | erlang |
Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.
Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
* 1719 , :
* 2007 , John Darwin, After Tamerlane , Penguin 2008, p. 12:
Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
Commodities of the market.
* John Gay
To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.
To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
(communication) A dimensionless statistical measure of the volume of telecommunications traffic relative to the capacity of a single channel.
As nouns the difference between traffic and erlang
is that traffic is pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof while erlang is (communication) a dimensionless statistical measure of the volume of telecommunications traffic relative to the capacity of a single channel.As a verb traffic
is to pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.traffic
English
(wikipedia traffic)Alternative forms
* traffickNoun
(-)- Traffic is slow at rush hour.
- I had three large axes, and abundance of hatchets (for we carried the hatchets for traffic with the Indians).
- It's units of study are regions or oceans, long-distance trades [...], the traffic of cults and beliefs between cultures and continents.
- You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.
Derived terms
* traffic boy * traffic jamVerb
(traffick)References
*erlang
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* EHow Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
