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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The total amount of time in which a process spends in a ready queue before it reaches the CPU.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: computer-hardware, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: wait time
Antonyms: none provided
History
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