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  • adjective comparative form of lumpy: more lumpy

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  • This can result in a 'lumpier' distribution of data, but generally improves performance because if you exceed working memory, this model can typically page in a single page from disk to handle the k-1 writes.

    Jeremy Zawodny's linkblog 2010

  • "The smaller the region, the 'lumpier' the data," Mr. Dye said, but he added, "I do think the data is consistent with slow improvement."

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • This can result in a 'lumpier' distribution of data, but generally improves performance because if you exceed working memory, this model can typically page in a single page from disk to handle the k-1 writes.

    Jeremy Zawodny's linkblog 2010

  • But Rick, that would seem to me that some of those cost savings are going to come sooner rather than later, kind of lumpier maybe up front, if you've already implemented some of these workforce reductions.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

  • But Rick, that would seem to me that some of those cost savings are going to come sooner rather than later, kind of lumpier maybe up front, if you've already implemented some of these workforce reductions.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2009

  • The overall penetration rates were essentially the same for business and home, even though corporate decisions are usually "lumpier" than decentralized individual decisions.

    fullasagoog.com full roast blend 2008

  • The overall penetration rates were essentially the same for business and home, even though corporate decisions are usually "lumpier" than decentralized individual decisions.

    fullasagoog.com full roast blend 2008

  • The overall penetration rates were essentially the same for business and home, even though corporate decisions are usually "lumpier" than decentralized individual decisions.

    fullasagoog.com full roast blend 2008

  • The overall penetration rates were essentially the same for business and home, even though corporate decisions are usually "lumpier" than decentralized individual decisions.

    fullasagoog.com full roast blend 2008

  • The overall penetration rates were essentially the same for business and home, even though corporate decisions are usually "lumpier" than decentralized individual decisions.

    fullasagoog.com full roast blend 2008

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