ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Undersubscription

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Undersubscription is a noun meaning The subscription of significantly less than is available.

Meaning

The subscription of significantly less than is available.

More Meanings

  1. (computing) The employment of more ports or bandwidth than necessary to ensure that network communication does not face delays.
  2. (computing) The failure to provide sufficient threads in a multithreaded application.

Example Sentences

They may increase the size of the placing (green-shoe option) or decrease it in case of undersubscription.
There were no instances of undersubscriptions in SDL auctions of 28 states as against 18 such instances last year.
Therefore, in the presence of an underwriter any risks associated with undersubscription are shifted from the company to the underwriter.
When there are not enough running threads to optimally exploit available PEs undersubscription occurs, resulting in a waste of performance.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include undersupply, underselection, underallocation, undercoverage, underabundance, underexposure.

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