leaky bucket

English

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.

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