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occupancy rate

4.8

The percentage of available computer resources like memory or storage that are in use

noun

Specialized

: tasa de ocupación

The monitoring dashboard showed an 82% occupancy rate for virtual machines during the spike.

Examples

Our team reduced the cluster's occupancy rate by moving low-priority workloads to cheaper instances overnight.
When planning capacity, they predicted future occupancy rates from historical CPU and memory usage patterns.
The occupancy rate for the data center is currently 85%.
Can you provide the latest occupancy rates for our servers?
The monitoring dashboard showed an 82% occupancy rate for virtual machines during the spike.
When planning capacity, they predicted future occupancy rates from historical CPU and memory usage patterns.
Our team reduced the cluster's occupancy rate by moving low-priority workloads to cheaper instances overnight.

How Used

overutilization

1 7.5

occupancy rate

Specialized

4.8

idleness

8 4.5

Surface Forms

occupancy rate singular

occupancy rates plural

Morphology

occupancy + rate

The meaning 'proportion of available resources in use' is directly and compositionally derived from 'occupancy' (the amount occupied or in use) plus 'rate' (a measured proportion), following standard noun–noun compounding patterns. Although it is often used in an IT/data-center domain, the semantic combination is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will likely infer the meaning.

Etymology

Occupancy rate is also used for computers and servers: picture machines being occupied by tasks and the rate showing the 'percentage' of computing resources in use, so it tells you how busy the system is.