If I pour in at the rate of one gallon per hour, that total volume is a megawatthour (MWh), or 1, 000 kilowatthours (kWh).

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In order to compete with the kingpin of that space, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its Elastic Compute Cloud, Google has bolstered its platform with new features, including shared-core instances for low-intensity chores, advanced routing, large persistent disks up to 10TB in volume size and sub-hour billing to keep costs down.

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The chart below shows the volume of links being shared on Facebook by hour and day of week.

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Wait until 8AM and you can still get to work early, but because of a 20% increase in the volume of traffic it may take you an hour and twenty minutes.

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Consumer-facing firms have developed a wide variety of price discrimination schemes involving coupons, volume discounts, memberships, reward cards, happy hour specials, and so forth.

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During our hour-and-half long interview, Talen frequently elevated the volume of his voice preacher-like to a booming crescendo when coming to a point.

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