throttler

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
12
Letters
9

Definition of throttler

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (figuratively, sometimes)One who or that which throttles.
    “[…] a crowd of ragged, discharged soldiers, who, having served a government which takes and never gives, returning home without pay, took vengeance on the legalized throttlers of travel and trade.”
    “Current Blocked Async I/O Requests is the number of current asynchronous I/O requests blocked by bandwidth throttler.”

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Etymology

From throttle + -er.

Hooks

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