backoff

Noun

Meaning

(computing) The situation where an algorithm or process refrains from taking an action it would otherwise have taken.
a backoff strategy to avoid collisions

(surfing) The situation where an incoming wave passes from shallower water to a deeper area, making the wave less steep and potentially unsurfable.

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Avenue Beat — friends Sami Bearden, Savana Santos and Sam Backoff — posted a response video to their song on Tuesday (June 30), in which they shed tears over the positive response to "Lowkey Fk 2020.” Source: Internet

For server initiated requests, retry automatically using an exponential backoff strategy. Source: Internet

Schedulers will use techniques such as exponential backoff to save battery, where each time the attempt to connect fails, the scheduler doubles the delay before the next retry. Source: Internet

By default they use a Carrier sensing mechanism called 'exponential backoff', or ( Distributed coordination function ) that relies upon a station attempting to 'listen' for another station's broadcast before sending. Source: Internet

If such acknowledgement does not arrive in a timely manner, it assumes the packet collided with some other transmission, causing the node to enter a period of binary exponential backoff prior to attempting to re-transmit. Source: Internet

Retry your request using an exponential backoff pattern. Source: Internet

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