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throughput|ˈθruːpʊt|
[f. through-: cf. input n., output n.]
1. Sc. ‘Energy, activity, capacity for or progress at work’ (S.N.D.).
1808Jamieson Etym. Dict. Sc. Lang. I. s.v. ithand, He has nae great throw-pit, but he's very eident. 1845Chambers's Jrnl. 28 June 412 They'd hang as long as I like at the plough-tail, but I want through-put; and so commend me to my own men and reasonable hours. 1923G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 309 Throw-pit, capacity for accomplishing work.
2. The amount of oil or other raw materials, etc., processed by an industrial plant; transf., the amount or number of units passing through a system, the amount of data processed by a computer (over a stated time period). Also, processing, production, or handling capacity. Also attrib.
1915J. Wilson Lowland Scotch Lower Strathearn 273/1 Throo-put, n. out-turn. 1922Daily Mail 15 Nov. 3 Throughput of oil will necessarily be interfered with temporarily. 1930Daily Express 22 May 15/2 The larger throughput was sufficient to..yield the handsome margin of {pstlg}89 per ton of ore. 1945H. D. Smyth Gen. Acct. Devel. Atomic Energy Mil. Purposes xi. 113 By the middle of January 1942, a run had been made with a reasonable beam strength and an aggregate flow or through-put of appreciable amount which showed a much improved separation factor. 1950Engineering 20 Jan. 69/1 Plant and machinery made ready to handle maximum throughputs. 1958Spectator 1 Aug. 178/2 The Magheralin Creamery, N. Ireland, had a considerably higher throughput of milk. 1959Times Rev. Industry Mar. 24/1 Coal throughput rates. 1961B. Fergusson Watery Maze ii. 59 The drains..were unable to cope with the ‘through-put’, as industrialists say, of more than eighteen lavatories. 1962Economist 20 Oct. 215/1 With Stonehenge and the Tower already showing maximum throughput. 1965New Scientist 24 June 883 Time sharing (or multi-programming) is already well established as a means of increasing the throughput and utilization of a computer. 1967Listener 31 Aug. 263/3 Russian economists now discover that pre⁓packaging..not only makes for better hygiene, but trebles a shop assistant's throughput. 1968P. Dickinson Skin Deep i. 6 Estate agents must be doing nicely down this way, with a constant through-put of moneyed youngsters moving in with one kid and moving out with three. 1969J. Argenti Managem. Techniques 168 By re-siting the factory entrance gates at a cost of a few hundred pounds it was possible for one company to increase the throughput of customers' lorries by 50 per cent. 1970D. Kut Warm Air Heating xx. 338 The grade of oil fuel best suited for a particular installation depends on the type of oil burner and on the hourly through-put of oil. 1972Daily Tel. 11 May 2/4 Prince Philip said..that the criterion for a university was the quality and standard of its life and work, not the total through-put of students. 1974Information Handbk. 1974–5 (Shell Internat. Petroleum Co.) 105 The graphs show that costs increase as throughputs exceed or fall below the ‘optimum’, that is the throughput at which the total unit cost reaches the lowest point. 1976P. R. White Planning for Public Transport iv. 76 An alternative means of maximizing station throughput is to build a station in which a single track carrying a one-way flow bifurcates to form a loop around an island platform. 1978Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVI. 425/1 Increasing the throughput of vehicles on an existing highway. |