technical limitation
undesired limitation of the utility of a technology due to trade-offs in its technical design
throughput
maximum rate of production or the maximum rate at which something can be processed
global interpreter lock
coarse-grained mutex used in some process virtual machines
maximum ramp weight
maximum weight authorised for manoeuvring an aircraft
maximum landing weight
maximum weight of a craft at which landing is permitted
signal bandwidth
difference between the upper and lower frequencies passed by a filter, communication channel, or signal spectrum
contact resistance
electrical resistance for current flowing across a pair of electrical contacts
towing capacity
the towing/pulling capacity of a vehicle, specially trucks
software bloat
computer program performance degradation process
bottleneck
Situation in which overall output of a system is limited by a single component
RAM limit
Maximum amount of RAM accessible by a computer architecture
rating
specification of safe or acceptable values of some property of a component or device
type I and type II errors
concepts from statistical hypothesis testing
ceiling
maximum density altitude an aircraft is specified to reach
leakage
gradual transfer of electrical energy across a boundary normally viewed as insulating
never exceed speed
highest instantaneous airspeed an aircraft is designed to safely achieve in flight
software incompatibility
characteristic of software components or systems which cannot operate satisfactorily together on the same computer, or on different computers linked by a computer network
bottleneck
limitation point of a production process
backlash
in mechanical engineering, looseness due to clearance between components
lag
noticeable delay in video games between the action of players and the reaction of the server
Fragile base class
object-oriented programming system problem
processor power dissipation
overview of the power dissipation of the computer processor
GPS week number rollover
Event occuring every 1024 weeks
nameplate capacity
intended full-load sustained output of a facility
noise
random fluctuation in an electrical signal
tonnage
measure of the cargo-carrying volumetric capacity of a ship
Cupertino effect
tendency of a spell checker to suggest or autocorrect with inappropriate words to replace misspelled words and words not in its dictionary
maximum takeoff weight
maximum weight of a craft at which takeoff is permitted