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A unit of traffic intensity in a telephone system
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erlang
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The erlang (symbol E ) is a dimensionless unit that is used in telephony as a measure of offered load or carried load on service-providing elements such as telephone circuits or telephone switching equipment. For example, a single cord circuit has the capacity ...
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n. (context communication English) A dimensionless statistical measure of the volume of telecommunications traffic relative to the capacity of a single channel.
Usage examples of erlang.
Horrible a reputation as the Otranto City slave markets had, Erlang was worse.
First we go to Erlang, then we take a big swing through Granger territory.
Both taverns blamed their prices on the Erlang government's incessant demand for more revenue.
The richest Erlang merchant families have ruled the city for generations.
The barbarian cities get nothing, unless, of course, Erlang decides they wish to trade some of their allotment to the east.
The gold Bart carried, Jake realized bitterly, had probably dragged him into the Erlang Sea in the first place.
Unless they wanted to take the land route two thousand kilometers around the Erlang sea and through Barbarian, Tiflis, and Granger territory, they needed to cross the narrow isthmus.