Congestion

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The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load.

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n

Definition: blockage
Antonyms: emptiness, opening, uncrowding

The restriction of the use of a facility by over-use. The term is generally used to indicate the slowing of urban traffic because too many vehicles are competing for too little space, but it can be applied to any excessive demand for any facility, when use exceeds carrying capacity. Congestion on a routeway depends on the carrying capacity of the route, the volume of traffic, and the varying proportions of the total freight and passenger traffic carried by competing means of transport (the modal split). The effects of congestion involve long, frustrating, and often costly, delays, road accidents, air pollution, and noise, all of which create an externality to the urban economy. They are, however, difficult to quantify in terms of cost and the individual may have little control over them.

1. A market situation whereby the demand of contract holders wishing to exit their existing positions exceeds the supply of willing participants wishing to enter into the offsetting position.

2. A period of time when a stock trades either below resistance or above support, or both.

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1. During times of congestion, contract holders, since their positions are unattractive to new investors and in order to offset their positions, will be required either to pay a high premium or sell at a low discount.

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IN BRIEF: The state of being tightly compacted.

Traffic congestion was so bad he decided to telecommute.

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Abnormal accumulation of blood in a part.

• pulmonary c. — see pulmonary congestion.
• udder c. — see udder edema.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - overbelastning, overbefolkning, akkumulering, kongestion

Français (French)
n. - congestion, embouteillage, encombrement, (Méd) congestion

Deutsch (German)
n. - Stau, Gedränge

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - συνωστισμός, (φυσιολ.) συμφόρηση, υπεραιμία

Italiano (Italian)
congestione, ingorgo, congestione del traffico stradale, caldana

Português (Portuguese)
n. - congestão (f), congestão (f) (Med.), congestionamento (m)

Русский (Russian)
перенаселенность, загруженность, закупорка

Español (Spanish)
n. - congestión, atasco, embotellamiento, acaloramiento

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - blodstockning, stockning (trafik mm), överbelastning, överbefolkning

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
拥塞, 充血, 挤满

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 擁塞, 充血, 擠滿

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 혼잡, 밀집

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 密集, 雑踏, 充血, うっ血, 過剰

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮צפיפות, הצטברות‬

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