How to Use throughput in a Sentence

throughput

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  • The network can handle large throughputs.
  • This means a 10th of the throughput for each charger versus pump, or worse.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2020
  • In the first nine months of the year, Cosco’s portfolio-wide gross throughput grew 2.8% on year, Chen notes.
    — WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The maximum data throughput of the ports is up to 5Gbps and the speed of the memory card slots is 104Mbps.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Right now, most blockchains don’t have enough throughput to run games, but this is changing.
    — Mark Soares, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2023
  • Port throughput fell at Busan, a top-ten global port, as truckers left their trucks and sat on the streets. ...
    — Dominic Pino, National Review, 28 June 2022
  • Wi-Fi both connected to our house wLAN rapidly and got good throughput, and the battery life was great.
    — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Things were good when the high-throughput diagnostic machines were used to run tests.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 June 2020
  • In cases where throughput is critical, the Neoverse E-series IP is the best fit.
    — Matt Kimball, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Under the new policy, Medicare will pay $75 for each test on a high-throughput machine.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2020
  • No blockchain has really scaled, and there are use cases which really depend on a very large amount of throughput.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Bigger channels means more throughput capacity, which means more data in the same amount of time.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The actual throughput of that business, or that operational arm of a business, is just one.
    — Michael White, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • These companies are working on increasing throughput, as well, by adding up to 12 lasers to their machines.
    — Michael Molitch-Hou, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Thunderbolt has the throughput to work with an external dock or adapter to deal with multiple devices.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 23 June 2022
  • Many providers stressed that issues with throughput — the ability to move patients through the flow of hospital services — is a key dimension of the crisis.
    — Eliza Fawcett, courant.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • High-throughput testing requires using centralized labs and can take between a day to four days to get results.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Pfizer added more filter area to increase throughput and double batch size, from 1.7 million to more than 3 million doses.
    — Washington Post, 16 June 2021
  • Screeners saw a throughput of more than 1.2 million passengers on Monday.
    — Jeremy Beaman, Washington Examiner, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The machine quadrupled his laboratory’s throughput to more than 6000 swabs per day.
    — Douglas Starr, Science | AAAS, 27 Aug. 2020
  • There were individuals who had been tested, who hadn’t had their specimen run because of the slow throughput.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 18 Mar. 2020
  • This leads to much higher cache hit rates—and therefore lower latencies and more throughput and IOPS available from the actual disks—for most real-world workloads.
    — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Collins cites the surge in personalized medicine, which brought high throughput genetic sequencing and proteomics into the mix.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Wi-Fi and Bluetooth interfaces in smartphones have multiplied data throughput by a factor of 10 or more.
    — Markus Lutz, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Success in this case means doing a good job of mixing, which relates both to not dropping packets and throughput — how many packets are going in and how many mixed packets are going out.
    — Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Without a wireless backhaul, mesh devices must talk to each other over the same 5 GHz network your wireless devices connect to, which can limit the throughput of your devices.
    — Joseph Moran, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
  • MNOs permit vetted businesses to send much higher volumes of messages per minute—almost up there with short code throughput.
    — Venky Balasubramanian, Forbes, 5 July 2022
  • But throughput isn't usually the killer metric for gaming—latency is.
    — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The site handled thousands of visits every single day and was able to reach that scale almost overnight by bringing in National Guard medics to maximize throughput.
    — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Committing to no-code automation means scaling the number, size and throughput of workflows.
    — Eoin Hinchy, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2022

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