bandwidth
/ˈbandwɪtθ
/ /ˈbandwɪdθ/noun
1 Electronics A range of frequencies within a given band, in particular that used for transmitting a signal.Since kinetic energy increases with increasing frequency, the bandwidth of the low-frequency regime is limited....
- Once the installation vibrations have been mitigated, low-cost gyros need to have bandwidths in the range of 50-70 Hz for adequate processing of high-frequency components of flight angular motion.
- Monetarists believe that money supply should be kept within an acceptable bandwidth so that levels of inflation can be controlled.
1.1The transmission capacity of a computer network or other telecommunication system: posting separately wastes bandwidth and disk space...
- In a period of two weeks we measured the bandwidth of 54,845 peers downloading over a hundred newly injected files.
- As the sheer amount of bandwidth running across public networks increases, so do power requirements.
- It is also the amount of cache memory rather than the memory bandwidth that determines the speed of the system in popular games.
2The energy or mental capacity required to deal with a situation: he lives alone, and says he doesn’t have the bandwidth to handle a steady relationship...
- I guess for the most part of this year I felt like I don't have a lot of bandwidth to deal with all of that.
- Driving a car eats up a lot more mental bandwidth than sitting on a plane.
- With a little more mental bandwidth this summer, I started re-viewing the earliest footage we shot for my grandfather's documentary.
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