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  • noun communication A dimensionless statistical measure of the volume of telecommunications traffic relative to the capacity of a single channel.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a unit of traffic intensity in a telephone system

Etymologies

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From A. K. Erlang

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Examples

  • Thus, it is not necessary to specifythe module name and both the calls erlang: atom_to_list (Erlang) are identical.

    Hiveminds Magazine 2009

  • When we did out outsourcing of our network we chose a parameter called erlang which is a unit of network consumption voice units.

    unknown title 2009

  • Suspendee should previously have beensuspended via erlang: suspend_process / 1by the process calling erlang: resume_process (Suspendee).

    Hiveminds Magazine 2009

  • If this flag is not given, tracemessages will be sent to the process that called erlang: trace / 3.

    Hiveminds Magazine 2009

  • If you want to bereally sure not to return you can call erlang: error (erlang: raise (Class, Reason, Stacktrace)).

    Hiveminds Magazine 2009

  • = ERROR REPORT = = = = 28-Nov-2009:: 20: 49: 11 = = = file: path_eval ([ ".", "/var/lib/ejabberd"], ". erlang"): permission denied

    ejabberd Community Site - Comments 2009

  • Now I need to know what plugins I need to make the python/ruby/erlang support as good as it is in TextMate/emacs!

    Useful jEdit plugin: XML (HTML) Indenter. And switching back to jEdit from UltraEdit. Jonathan Aquino 2006

  • It doesn't take much work to get ejabberd going, but you will have to do some minor hand-editing of its configuration files-which are basically erlang code.

    Ars Technica Ryan Paul 2011

  • The erlang-based ejabberd is generally regarded as the best option for large deployments because it scales well and offers good performance for intensive messaging workloads.

    Ars Technica Ryan Paul 2011

  • The erlang-based ejabberd is generally regarded as the best option for large deployments because it scales well and offers good performance for intensive messaging workloads.

    Ars Technica Ryan Paul 2011

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synonyms (1)

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  1. E

hypernyms (1)

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  1. telephone unit

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  • reesetee commented on the word erlang

    A dimensionless "unit" representing a traffic density of one call-second per second (or one call-hour per hour, etc.). Named after A. K. Erlang, a Danish mathematician who studied the mathematics of telephone networks.

    November 6, 2007

  • shanglee commented on the word erlang

    I always thought Er Lang was a God. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Er_Lang.

    November 6, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the word erlang

    It can be both, no?

    November 7, 2007