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leaky bucket

noun

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  1. A counter or variable that is incremented whenever an event of interest occurs, and also…

    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.

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