THROUGHPUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does throughput mean? 

• THROUGHPUT (noun)
  The noun THROUGHPUT has 1 sense:

1. output relative to input; the amount passing through a system from input to output (especially of a computer program over a period of time)

  Familiarity information: THROUGHPUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THROUGHPUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Output relative to input; the amount passing through a system from input to output (especially of a computer program over a period of time)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("throughput" is a kind of...):

output; outturn; turnout (what is produced in a given time period)

Domain category:

computer; computing device; computing machine; data processor; electronic computer; information processing system (a machine for performing calculations automatically)

 Context examples 

Subjects underwent testing for attention, memory, and cognitive throughput, i.e., how fast and accurate the brain performs of cognitive tests, were administered throughout the experiment to measure cognitive performance.

(Why Lack of Sleep Affects Some More Than Others, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The study of comprehensive sets of genes via high throughput methods.

(Genomics Research, NCI Thesaurus)

Now a team of researchers employed the Robot Scientist ‘Eve’ in a high-throughput screen and discovered that triclosan, an ingredient found in many toothpastes, may help the fight against drug-resistance.

(Toothpaste ingredient may help fight drug-resistant malaria, University of Cambridge)

The scientists are hoping to help answer that question through a clever combination of high-throughput genetic sequencing and natural-language-processing computer algorithms.

(Microbes are at work in our bodies, and researchers have figured out what they're up to, National Science Foundation)

A technology that allows for high-throughput laser dissection of frozen specimens.

(Laser Cryo Enrichment, NCI Thesaurus)

A facility to perform high-throughput genotyping and sequencing to support genetic analysis for a broad range of projects.

(Core Genotyping Facility, NCI Thesaurus)

The Cancer Genome Anatomy Project (CGAP) will unite the newest technologies, along with those both cost-effective and capable of high-throughput, to identify all the genes responsible for the establishment and growth of cancer.

(Cancer Genome Anatomy Project, NCI Thesaurus)

Notably, from the miRNA blood sample taken before the study began, 14 miRNAs reliably predicted behavioral attention performance during TSD, 7 miRNAs reliably predicted cognitive throughput performance during TSD and 10 miRNAs reliably predicted memory performance.

(Why Lack of Sleep Affects Some More Than Others, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Robot scientist Eve was developed by a team of scientists at the Universities of Manchester, Aberystwyth, and Cambridge to automate – and hence speed up – the drug discovery process by automatically developing and testing hypotheses to explain observations, run experiments using laboratory robotics, interpret the results to amend their hypotheses, and then repeat the cycle, automating high-throughput hypothesis-led research.

(Toothpaste ingredient may help fight drug-resistant malaria, University of Cambridge)