backpressure

noun

Etymology

From back + pressure.

  1. derived from pressūra
  2. compounded as backpressure — “back + pressure

Definitions

  1. Pressure that is opposed to the flow of a fluid.

  2. The buildup of unprocessed data due to a bottleneck.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for backpressure. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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