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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
speedup
noun
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▪ Anyone who thinks about the speedup of change must sense that it has a lot to do with modern technology.
▪ But Democrats say the speedup would undermine the work of a commission that is developing standards for a new statewide test.
▪ The speedup in the rate of change, especially within the past two decades, is well known.
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speedup

n. 1 An amount or rate of decrease in time taken. 2 (context chiefly computing English) The relationship between time taken and number of processors used. 3 (context labor politics English) an employer's demand for more output without more pay

WordNet
speedup

n. the act of accelerating; increasing the speed [syn: acceleration, quickening]

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Speedup

In computer architecture, speedup is a process for increasing the performance between two systems processing the same problem. More technically, it is the improvement in speed of execution of a task executed on two similar architectures with different resources. The notion of speedup was established by Amdahl's law, which was particularly focused on parallel processing. However, speedup can be used more generally to show the effect on performance after any resource enhancement.

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Routes were lengthened, quotas were introduced, and speedups became commonplace.

Since on-the-job stress was not a recognized factor, the Postal Service did nothing to prevent its managers from conducting work speedups or bullying workers to increase productivity.