erlang

See also: Erlang

English

Etymology

Named after Danish mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang (1878–1929).

Noun

erlang (plural erlangs)

1. (telecommunications) A dimensionless statistical measure of the volume of telecommunications traffic relative to the capacity of a single channel.

   Synonyms: E, Erl

   • 2004, Ajay R. Mishra, Fundamentals of Cellular Network Planning and Optimisation, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 42:

     One erlang (1 Erl) is defined as the amount of traffic generated by the user when he or she uses one traffic channel for one hour (this one hour is usually the busy hour of the network).

Related terms

• Erlang

Further reading

• erlang (unit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Rangel, angler, Largen, Arleng, Algren, langer, rangle, Nergal, largen, regnal, Nagler, gen'ral, Langer

German

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aŋ

Verb

erlang

1. singular imperative of erlangen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of erlangen