plural of rate limiter

(computing) A piece of software that performs rate limiting.

(UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 20–28 guns on one gun deck, a complement of 140–200, and weighing 340–550 tons burthen.

(UK, military, nautical, historical) A fourth-rate ship of the line.

Alternative spelling of sixth-rate

(computing) The maximum number of requests in a given timeframe that are able to be made to a server that uses rate limiting.

(computing) The process of limiting the number of requests made to a server so as to avoid overloading it.

plural of rate limit

(UK, military, nautical, historical) A sixth-rate warship.

(UK, military, nautical, historical) Of a Royal Navy warship in the Napoleonic Era: having 32–44 guns across one or two gun decks, a complement of 200–300, and weighing 700–1,450 tons burthen.