traffic

traf·fic

This city has a lot of traffic.

noun

Traffic is defined as vehicles or people in the vehicles, a delay that involves transportation or movement through a designated location.

An example of traffic is people driving in cars.
An example of traffic is a heavy delay in a railroad system.
An example of traffic is how many hits a website gets daily.

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traffic

Archaic
1. transportation of goods for trading
2. trading over great distances; commerce
buying and selling; barter; trade, sometimes, specif., of a wrong or illegal kind: traffic in drugs
dealings or business (with someone)
1. the movement or number of automobiles along a street, pedestrians along a sidewalk, ships using a port, etc.
2. the automobiles, pedestrians, ships, etc. so moving
the number of passengers, quantity of freight, etc. carried by a transportation company during a given period
the volume of telegrams, calls, etc. transmitted by a communications company during a given period
the number of potential customers entering a retail store during a given period

Origin of traffic

French trafic from Italian traffico from trafficare, to trade from Classical Latin trans, across + Italian ficcare, to thrust in, bring from Vulgar Latin an unverified form figicare, intensive for Classical Latin figere: see finish

of or having to do with traffic: a traffic violation, traffic manager

intransitive verb

-·ficked, -·fick·ing

to carry on traffic, esp. illegal trade (in a commodity)
to have traffic, trade, or dealings (with someone)

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traffic

noun

a. The passage of people or vehicles along routes of transportation.
b. Vehicles or pedestrians in transit: heavy traffic on the turnpike; stopped oncoming traffic to let the children cross.
a. The commercial exchange of goods; trade.
b. Illegal or improper commercial activity: drug traffic on city streets. See Synonyms at business.
a. The business of moving passengers and cargo through a transportation system.
b. The amount of cargo or number of passengers conveyed.
a. The conveyance of messages or data through a system of communication: routers that manage internet traffic.
b. Messages or data conveyed through such a system: a tremendous amount of telephone traffic on Mother's Day; couldn't download the file due to heavy internet traffic.
c. The number of users or visitors, as at a website: attempted to increase traffic with a redesigned homepage.
Social or verbal exchange; communication: refused further traffic with the estranged friend.

verb

traf·ficked, traf·fick·ing, traf·fics

intransitive verb

To carry on trade or other dealings: trafficked in liquidation merchandise; traffic with gangsters.

transitive verb

To provide to others, especially in large quantities, in exchange for money: was accused of trafficking guns to local gangs.

Origin of traffic

French trafic from Old French trafique from Old Italian traffico from trafficare to trade perhaps from Catalan trafegar to decant from Vulgar Latin trānsfaecāre trāns- trans- faex faec- dregs ; see feces.

Related Forms:

traf′fick·er
noun

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Noun

(uncountable)

Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.
Traffic is slow at rush hour.
Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present traffics, present participle trafficking, simple past and past participle trafficked)

(intransitive) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.
(intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

Origin

From Middle French trafique (“traffic"), from Italian traffico (“traffic") from Italian trafficare (“to carry on trade"). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *transfricare (“to rub across").

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traffic - Computer Definition

The total volume of cells, blocks, frames, packets, calls, messages, or other units of data carried over a circuit or network, or processed through a switch, router, or other system.

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Data transmitted over a network. Traffic is a very general term and typically refers to overall network usage at a given moment. However, it can refer to specific transactions, messages, records or users in any kind of data or telephone network. See PPS.

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