traffic
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5.7
- noun
- /ˈtræfɪk/
- Specialized
- She analyzed the data to understand the amount of traffic on their servers last week.
- internet traffic
- traffic analysis
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Watch on YouTubeThat was a good norm and and the traffic to the website grew a lot.
- That was a good norm and and the traffic to the website grew a lot.
- So once paid traffic gets scaled, I mean, who knows?
- As a result, they get a lot of e-mail traffic from the team.
- And so over the next year, the the traffic just went away for Yahoo.
- And with Airpone, you're able to actually inject traffic back into the network.
- We want to look at their web traffic because folks, web traffic is dollar signs.
- A real cool, natural, organic way of getting Internet traffic for little to no effort, right?
- It's not sensitive to traffic characteristics.
- It probably genuinely just was to get attention to get traffic to the channel.
- And their traffic was down and it just wasn't going great.
- But here's the thing, second most traffic site in America, right behind Alphabet.
Examples
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We want to look at their web traffic because folks, web traffic is dollar signs.
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The next half hour was a blur of phone calls and traffic through the control room.
Fiction book (1995) -
You really see much more traffic to really small news sites.
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As a result, they get a lot of e-mail traffic from the team.
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These guys manage a lot of signal traffic.
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We have noticed a lot of increased traffic.
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In either case, the effect of the attack on legitimate traffic is minimized.
Academic text (2012) -
We spent an hour going over the radio traffic, making certain that we hadn't missed anything pertinent.
Fiction book (1998) -
The company's web traffic increased significantly after the launch of their new marketing campaign.
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The IT department reported that the email traffic had doubled during the holiday season.
Antonyms
Idioms
- Slang
Tell someone angrily to do something dangerous to stop them complaining
Compounds
41
1.0
A device with red, yellow and green lights that controls cars and people at street intersections
9
1.4
A system of colored lights where roads meet that tells cars and people when to go
3
2.1
A time when cars and other vehicles move slowly and sometimes stop because of heavy traffic or an accident
2
2.8
A round road junction where cars go around a central island to enter or leave
- NSFW
1
8.4
The buying, selling, and moving of people to be forced to work, especially Africans taken to the Americas
- Texting
1
3.8
Visits to a website that come from people typing the address or using a bookmark
1
2.7
A red, yellow and green sign on a report or screen that shows a project's status
- Specialized
1
3.5
A time when data takes longer to travel across a computer network, causing lag
- Specialized
The amount of data sent between parts of a computer over a shared connection
Surface Forms
Etymology
The modern use of traffic for networks is a helpful image: since traffic once meant the movement of goods and people, it now means the 'movement' of data or signals, like cars moving along wires and roads.