bandwidth
Pronunciation: /ˈbændwɪdθ/
The English word “bandwidth” has 5 meanings listed here.
noun
- The width, usually measured in hertz, of a frequency band.
- The width of the smallest frequency band within which the signal can fit.
- The rate of data flow in digital networks typically measured in bits per second; the bitrate.
- The capacity, energy or time required.
- The minimum, over all orderings of vertices of a given graph, of the length of the longest edge.
Etymology
From band + width.
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