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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
logjam
noun
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▪ Extra work has been commissioned to determine which highway links and junctions would need improvement to relieve any potential traffic logjam.
▪ Little wonder that the odd logjam has formed.
▪ Reaching the ridge, a logjam of bewildered novices develops.
▪ Ten days later, Sadat arrived in Jerusalem on the historic visit that broke the Middle East logjam.
▪ The logjam is occurring because of increased demand on the global communications network.
▪ The logjam on the railways is now playing havoc with the national economy.
▪ This time, I felt sure, the logjam was going to move.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
logjam

also log-jam, "congestion of logs on a river," by 1851, American English; see log (n.1) + jam (v.). The figurative sense is by 1890.

Wiktionary
logjam

n. 1 An excess of logs being conveyed on a river, so that their motion halts. 2 (context figuratively English) A clog or such jam or mess that halts or greatly delays progress.

WordNet
logjam

  1. n. any stoppage attributable to unusual activity; "the legislation ran into a logjam"

  2. an immovable mass of logs blocking a river

Wikipedia
Logjam (computer security)

Logjam is a security vulnerability against a Diffie–Hellman key exchange ranging from 512-bit ( US export-grade) to 1024-bit keys. It was discovered by a group of computer scientists and publicly reported on May 20, 2015.

Usage examples of "logjam".

The toll collector peered at the holoslate, then craned his neck in the direction of the knot of men and animals logjammed outside the airlock.

Normally the trauma team of ER physicians, surgical residents, radiologists, and anesthetists responded to the gunshots, stabbings, and car accidentsthe so-called Code Yellowsbut when logjams developed, support came in from the adjacent departments.

When I was a boy and traveled up north to visit my cousins, I saw log drives and logjams, and I even participated in a few log-rolling contests.

The other was Jed Griffin, the President's main man for breaking logjams.

A logjam of baggage-toting travelers clogged one of the taxi stands, forming a disorderly circle.