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Congestion is a state of excessive accumulation or overfilling or overcrowding. In specific contexts the word has a more precise definition and usage.
  • In telecommunication, the term has the following meanings:
    1. In a communications switch, a state or condition that occurs when more subscribers attempt simultaneously to access the switch than it's able to handle, even if unsaturated.
    2. In a saturated communications system, the condition that occurs when an additional demand for service occurs.
    3. Network congestion.
  • In medicine and pathology the term is used to describe excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a particular part of the body, such as nasal congestion.
  • Traffic congestion occurs when the volume of traffic exceeds the capacity of a roadway.
  • In electric power transmission, it means the inability to supply an area with the cheapest available generation due to a binding constraint on the point to point transmission route. Some plant or equipment could be causing the constraint due to thermal overload or security limits being potentially breached.
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