Usually means: Excessive accumulation causing movement delay.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. congestion: Merriam-Webster
  2. congestion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. congestion: Collins English Dictionary
  4. congestion: Vocabulary.com
  5. Congestion, congestion: Wordnik
  6. congestion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. congestion: Wiktionary
  8. congestion: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. congestion: Dictionary.com
  10. congestion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Congestion (film), Congestion (traffic), Congestion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Congestion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. congestion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. congestion: Rhymezone
  15. Congestion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. congestion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. congestion: FreeDictionary.org
  18. congestion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. congestion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. congestion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. congestion: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
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  4. Congestion: Futures and Options Market Terminology
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  8. congestion: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. congestion: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
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  4. congestion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. congestion: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Congestion: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. Congestion: Scleroderma
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  7. congestion: Medical dictionary
  8. Congestion: Drug Medical Dictionary
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Congestion, Congestion, Congestion: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Congestion: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. congestion: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The hindrance or blockage of the passage of something, for example a fluid, mixture, traffic, people, etc. (due to an excess of this or due to a partial or complete obstruction), resulting in overfilling or overcrowding.
noun:  An accumulation or buildup, the act of gathering into a heap or mass.
noun:  (medicine) Blocking up of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hypermic, active or passive.
noun:  An excess or accumulation of something.
noun:  An excess of traffic; usually not a complete standstill of traffic, so usually not synonymous with traffic jam.
noun:  (medicine) An excess of mucus or fluid in the respiratory system; congestion of the lungs, or nasal congestion.
noun:  Edema, water retention, swelling, enlargement of a body part because of fluid retention in tissues and vessels.

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