in traffic, the overcrowding of a route, leading to slow and inefficient flow In 1991 in the UK there were about 10 million cars and lorries, and the congestion that they cause is estimated to cost between £2 billion and £5 billion a year
A traffic situation in which there are so many vehicles on an open road or highway that motorists travel well below the speed limit (e g , 5 to 10 mph less than the limit) For purposes of this survey, congestion is due to the presence of many other vehicles - rather than to the presence of signal lights, for example
Congestion in a part of the body is a medical condition in which the part becomes blocked. nasal congestion
is defined by Caltrans as, reduced speeds of less than 35 mile per hour for longer than 15 minutes
A condition in which a packet sent through a network experiences excessive delays because the network is overloaded with packets Protocol software has to detect this condition and take action to prevent the network from collapsing because of excessive overhead Congestion usually happens at specific points along a network path, and routing protocols can reroute data to use less congested paths and control congestion(to a degree)
Congestion occurs when the offered load exceeds the capacity of a data communication path
Restriction of flow on a line to meet the technical requirements of the network, taking into account the performance and behaviour of the equipment