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the polite valve between you and unsurvivable speed, mostly held back by your own nerve
means To throttle is either to choke or strangle someone by the throat, or to control the flow of fuel and power to an engine — and by extension, the amount of anything allowed through.
from From Middle English 'throtelen,' to choke, built from 'throte' (throat) — the same word that names the passage you'd be squeezing. So strangling came first; the engine sense is a metaphor borrowed centuries later, when inventors needed a word for the valve that lets an engine breathe or chokes it down. To throttle a machine is, quite literally, to grab it by the throat.
- name origin
- shares roots with throat, meaning to choke airflow
- engine truth
- it strangles or feeds air, not fuel directly
- fighter jets
- throttle plus stick is called HOTAS control
- data sense
- servers throttle users to choke traffic surges
- horse word
- once meant gripping a throat to silence it
apollo 13 oxygen tank — explosion in 1970 forced nasa to throttle power consumption to survive return
fukushima daiichi reactor 1 — operators throttled coolant flow in march 2011, contributing to meltdown
space shuttle main engine — designed to throttle from 65% to 109% thrust during ascent