请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 last mile
释义

> as lemmas

last mile
last mile n. (a) (in transportation contexts) the distance from a central depot or other offloading point to the final delivery destination (frequently considered as involving greater difficulty or costs); (b) Telecommunications the cabling or wireless technology that connects an end user to the internet, typically having slower transmission speeds or being more expensive to maintain than other parts of the network; frequently attributive.
Π
1974 Translog (U.S. Military Traffic Management & Terminal Service) Apr. 19/1 Local national employees in the 8th Logistical Command Transportation Office who are dedicated to the problems associated with the ‘last mile’ of cargo delivery to U.S. Forces in Italy.
1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 28 Aug. d1 Long-haul carriers..complain of the ‘last mile’ problem. Data and voice can be beamed thousands of miles at extremely rapid speeds, only to reach a bottleneck in the last mile at either end, in which the data must travel over a phone line.
1999 Courier Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 17 Dec. 39 Firms such as Webvan scramble to cover the so-called ‘last mile’ that separates the customer from the goods he ordered from his e-tailer.
2007 C. F. Lam Passive Optical Networks i. 1 Wi-Max is another type of access technology which uses radio waves for last-mile connectivity.
extracted from lastadv.adj.n.4
<
as lemmas
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/9/23 1:40:54