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throughput ['θru:put] n
IT The quantity of useful work made by the system per unit of time. Throughput can be measured in instructions per second or some other unit of performance. When referring to a data transfer operation, throughput measures the useful data transfer rate and is expressed in kbps, Mbps and Gbps.
USA In transportation, the average quantity of cargo and passengers that can pass through a port on a daily basis from arrival at the port to loading onto a ship or plane, or from the discharge from a ship or plane to the exit clearance from the port complex. (JP 4-01.5); In patient movement and care, the maximum number of patients stable or stabilized by category, that can be received at the airport, staged, transported, and received at the proper hospital within any 24-hour period (JP 4-02)