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** English
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*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Pronunciation
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*** Noun
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1. [en] [en] A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the street s or highway s of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.
2. On a smaller scale, the situation in which cars enter a signal -controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block ) when the light turns red , thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock.
3. [en] Any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion , conflict [,] or deadlock .
4. * [en-US]
5. [en] [en] [en] [en] . [from early 2020s]
**** Derived terms
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**** Translations
[traffic congestion]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
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- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
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- Hebrew: [he]
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- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Irish: [ga]
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- Persian: [fa]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
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- Swedish: [sv]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[on a smaller scale]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] , [minor] [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
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- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[deadlock]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To cause traffic congestion .
*** See also
- [en]
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