leaky bucket (English, noun)
expansion: leaky bucket (plural leaky buckets)
Senses:
topics: computing
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glosses: A counter or variable that is incremented whenever an event of interest occurs, and also periodically decremented; used in algorithms to check whether events will gradually overflow the system's capacity, for example in a telecommunication network.
Forms:
form: leaky buckets
tags: plural