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.
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