Range Anxiety

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. Borrowed from electric-vehicle culture, this refers to worry about whether a system, budget, or process can make it far enough before running out of capacity. In engineering slang, it applies to teams and systems operating near their limits.

    In plain English: Worry about running out of capacity before reaching the goal.

    Example: "The team had range anxiety about the training run because the GPU budget looked just barely large enough for one serious attempt."

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