brain traffic

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The movement and coordination of internal signals that govern the working of the body and mind, especially neural impulses and hormones. uncountable
    — In our healthy astronaut normal brain traffic is ordinarily so heavy that it swamps completely any weak trickle via the reducing valve. Therefore he is never normally subject to "imaginations."
  2. The discussion of ideas, especially over the Internet. Internet,uncountable
    — This smile brought another problem of how to put a new guy at the top of the mast without lowering the mast. Much brain traffic was handled. Many books and journals were consulted including our great amateur Bible, QST
  3. An ability to think, with an emphasis on the limited capacity and speed a person is capable of, analogous to the limits of a road system for handling vehicular traffic. figuratively,uncountable
    — The intensity of the radio noise, the vital nature of the decisions that have to be made — right now — the requirement for accelerated brain traffic; they were often more than a guy could effectively handle.
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