Look up: Utilization

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   Utilization
   Use of services and supplies. Utilization is commonly examined in terms of patterns or rates of use of a single service or type of service such as hospital care, physician visits, and prescription drugs. Measurement of utilization of all medical services in combination is usually done in terms of dollar expenditures. Use is expressed in rates per unit of population at risk for a given period such as the number of admissions to the hospital per 1,000 persons over age 65 per year, or the number of...
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   utilization
   [n] - the state of having been made use of
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   Utilization
   A technique in which a specific strategy sequence or pattern of behaviour is paced or matched in order to influence another`s response.
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   utilization
   noun the state of having been made use of; `the rate of utilization`
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   Utilization
   In queueing theory, `utilization` is the proportion of the system's resources which is used by the traffic which arrives at it. It should be strictly less than one for the system to function well. It is usually represented by the symbol ho. If ho geq 1 then the queue will continue to grow as time goes on. In the simplest case of an M/M/1 queue (Poisson arrivals and a single Poisson server) then it is given by the mean arrival rate over the m...
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   Utilization
   • (n.) The act of utilizing, or the state of being utilized.
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