undersubscription
nounEtymology From under- + subscription.
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The subscription of significantly less than is available.
- There were no instances of undersubscriptions in SDL auctions of 28 states as against 18 such instances last year.2013, State Finances, page 57:
- They may increase the size of the placing (green-shoe option) or decrease it in case of undersubscription.2013, Mario Levis, Silvio Vismara, Handbook of Research on IPOs, →ISBN, page 207:
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- Therefore, in the presence of an underwriter any risks associated with undersubscription are shifted from the company to the underwriter.2016, Craig Deegan, Financial Accounting, →ISBN:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The employment of more ports or bandwidth than necessary to ensure that network communication does not face delays.
- End-to-end QoS along with appropriate bandwidth provisioning specifically for Intra-Cluster Communication Signaling (ICCS) is required. Overprovisioning and undersubscription of bandwidth is recommended.2014, Akhil Behl, CCIE Collaboration Quick Reference, →ISBN:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The failure to provide sufficient threads in a multithreaded application.
- When there are not enough running threads to optimally exploit available PEs undersubscription occurs, resulting in a waste of performance.2012, Victor Pankratius, Michael Philippsen, Multicore Software Engineering, Performance and Tools, →ISBN: