Congestion

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Congestion \Con*ges"tion\ (?; 106), n. [L. congestio: cf. F.
     congestion.]
     1. The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.
        [Obs.]
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              The congestion of dead bodies one upon another.
                                                    --Evelyn.
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     2. (Med.) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood
        vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing
        other morbid symptoms); local hyper[ae]mia, active or
        passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion;
        congestion of the lungs.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  congestion
       n 1: excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body
            part
       2: excessive crowding; "traffic congestion" [syn: {over-crowding}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "congestion":
     amplitude, bar, barrier, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block,
     blockade, blockage, bottleneck, cecum, choking, choking off, clog,
     closeness, compactness, congestedness, consistence, consistency,
     constipation, costiveness, crowdedness, cul-de-sac, dead end,
     denseness, density, embolism, embolus, engorgement, firmness,
     flood tide, full, fullness, gluiness, glut, gorge, hardness,
     high tide, high water, hyperemia, impasse, impediment,
     impenetrability, impermeability, impletion, imporosity,
     incompressibility, infarct, infarction, jam, jammedness, obstacle,
     obstipation, obstruction, overbrimming, overburden, overcharge,
     overflow, overfreight, overfullness, overload, overspill,
     overweight, plenitude, plethora, relative density, repletion,
     satiety, saturation, saturation point, sealing off, solidity,
     solidness, specific gravity, spissitude, spring tide, stop,
     stoppage, strangulation, supersaturation, surcharge, surfeit,
     thickness, viscidity, viscosity, viscousness
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  congestion
       
          When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the
          capacity.