oversubscription

English

Etymology

over- +‎ subscription

Noun

oversubscription (countable and uncountable, plural oversubscriptions)

  1. A subscription for more than is available.
  2. (programming) A multithreading technique involving an extra thread that runs tasks when all other threads are blocked.
  3. (networking) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
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