BROADBAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does broadband mean? 

• BROADBAND (adjective)
  The adjective BROADBAND has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to or being a communications network in which the bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals (as for voice or data or video)

2. responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies

  Familiarity information: BROADBAND used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROADBAND (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or being a communications network in which the bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals (as for voice or data or video)

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

network ((electronics) a system of interconnected electronic components or circuits)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

broadband; wideband

Context example:

a broadband antenna

Pertainym:

frequency band (a band of adjacent radio frequencies (e.g., assigned for transmitting radio or television signals))

 Context examples 

A technique that uses focused waves of broadband, low-spatially-coherent light to illuminate a sample, and forms an image by acquiring far field back-scattered photons.

(Partial Wave Spectroscopic Microscopy, NCI Thesaurus)

The $843.55 million satellite, which was launched into space in May, will provide security for government and Armed Forces communications and, in the short term, help expand broadband services to remote areas of the country.

(First Brazilian satellite starts operations, Agência Brasil)