English Online Dictionary. What means bandwidth? What does bandwidth mean?
English
Etymology
From band + width.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbændwɪdθ/, /ˈbændwɪtθ/
Noun
bandwidth (countable and uncountable, plural bandwidths)
- The width, usually measured in hertz, of a frequency band.
- (of a signal) The width of the smallest frequency band within which the signal can fit.
- (networking, informal) The rate of data flow in digital networks typically measured in bits per second; the bitrate.
- (informal) The capacity, energy or time required.
- (graph theory) The minimum, over all orderings of vertices of a given graph, of the length of the longest edge.
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See also
- bandshape
- broadband