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for bandwidth
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
bandwidth \band"width`\ n.
The maximum rate of information transfer (measured in
bits/second) that can be carried by a communication channel.
"The bandwidth of an analog telephone line is less than 100
kilobits per second."
[WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 :
bandwidth
n : a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information
(bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) :
bandwidth n. 1. [common] Used by hackers (in a generalization of its
technical meaning) as the volume of information per unit time that a
computer, person, or transmission medium can handle. "Those are amazing
graphics, but I missed some of the detail -- not enough bandwidth, I
guess." Compare low-bandwidth; see also brainwidth. This generalized
usage began to go mainstream after the Internet population explosion of
1993-1994. 2. Attention span. 3. On Usenet, a measure of network
capacity that is often wasted by people complaining about how items
posted by others are a waste of bandwidth.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) :
bandwidth
The difference between the highest and lowest
frequencies of a transmission channel (the width of its
allocated band of frequencies).
The term is often used erroneously to mean data rate or
capacity - the amount of data that is, or can be, sent
through a given communications circuit per second.
[How is data capacity related to bandwidth?]
[{Jargon File]
(2001-04-24)
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