BANDWIDTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bandwidth mean? 

• BANDWIDTH (noun)
  The noun BANDWIDTH has 1 sense:

1. a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel

  Familiarity information: BANDWIDTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BANDWIDTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("bandwidth" is a kind of...):

information measure (a system of measurement of information based on the probabilities of the events that convey information)

 Context examples 

Data was lost or corrupted during the operation of reducing storage space or communication bandwidth.

(Device Data Compression Error Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)

The frequencies and bandwidths of infrared light are orders of magnitude higher than medical ultrasound signals, resulting in greatly increased image resolution, 8-25 times greater than any existing modality.

(Optical coherence tomography, NCI Thesaurus)

Graphene could pave the way towards the fabrication of new devices for ultra-broad bandwidth applications.

(Graphene paves the way to faster high-speed communications, University of Cambridge)

Some of these frequencies are extremely high-bandwidth, while some are low-bandwidth.

(Observing 'black hole symphony' using gravitational wave astronomy, National Science Foundation)

The researchers have demonstrated how properties of graphene – a two-dimensional form of carbon - enable ultra-wide bandwidth communications and low power consumption to radically change the way data is transmitted across the optical communications systems.

(Graphene may exceed bandwidth demands of future telecommunications, University of Cambridge)

Researchers have created a technology that could lead to new devices for faster, more reliable ultra-broad bandwidth transfers, and demonstrated how electrical fields boost the non-linear optical effects of graphene.

(Graphene paves the way to faster high-speed communications, University of Cambridge)