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round trip

round trip

1 3.9
The time it takes for data to go and come back over a network
  • noun
  • /raʊnd trɪp/
  • Specialized
translation icon : ida y vuelta
  • Using the data center at any one exchange adds to the round-trip latency for other markets.
  • round trip time
  • round-trip delay
  • round-trip signal

But some of them you'll get much better round trip times.

Examples

  • This particular change saved a full round trip to the server, per query.

    Blog text (17)

  • Most of these locations now appear to be back to normal round trip times to targets we monitor.

    Blog text (28)

  • But some of them you'll get much better round trip times.

    Computerphile

  • The round trip time for communications with a drone can exceed a second.

    Blog text (25)

  • The idea behind this feature was pretty simple: at the time, everyone was using modems and round trips to the server were quite expensive.

    Blog text (24)

  • A total of ten different transformations are performed on the data during the round trip through the subsystem.

    Academic text (1996)

  • All of this occurred with a 14-minute round-trip radio delay that left mission engineers as no more than bystanders.

    Blog text (10)

  • The round trip time for sending an email can affect the speed of communication.

  • High round trip times may lead to delays in data processing in network applications.

  • Understanding the round trip time is critical for optimizing network performance.

Synonyms

turnaround time
vsround trip
  • Specialized
3 5.3

The time needed to prepare a ship or plane for its next trip

measures the time for a request to go to a remote system and back
round-trip light time
vsround trip
  • Specialized
9.6

The time it takes for a light signal to travel to a spacecraft or planet and back

measures network request travel time between host and remote system

How Long

lag
46 4.1
delay
434 1.3
round trip
  • Specialized
1 3.9
response time
  • Specialized
23 3.9
time out
46 2.3

Surface Forms

round trip singular
round trips plural

Morphology

round + trip

The noun 'round trip' is a straightforward composition of 'round' (indicating a circuit or return) and 'trip' (a journey), so a B1 learner who knows those words can readily infer a journey that goes and then comes back. The technical networking sense (round-trip time) is a transparent metaphorical extension of that basic meaning — the time for a request to go to a remote host and return — and is cross-linguistically paralleled, making the expression predictable.

Etymology

Round trip in computing comes from the image of a trip that goes round back to the sender: a message is sent to another computer and then returns, so it means the 'time for a message to go and come back'.