"leaky bucket" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: leaky buckets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} leaky bucket (plural leaky buckets)
  1. (computing theory) 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. Categories (topical): Theory of computing Related terms: token bucket

Inflected forms

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