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throughput
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The speed with which a computer processes data. It is a combination of internal processing speed, peripheral speeds (I/O) and the efficiency of the operating system and other system software all working together.

1.throughput - The rate at which a processor can work expressed in instructions per second or jobs per hour or some other unit of performance.
2.(communications)throughput - data transfer rate.


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