Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The numerical difference between the upper and lower frequencies of a band of electromagnetic radiation, especially an assigned range of radio frequencies.
- n. The amount of data that can be passed along a communications channel in a given period of time.
Wiktionary
- n. The width, usually measured in hertz, of a frequency band.
- n. Of a signal, the width of the smallest frequency band within which the signal can fit
- n. The rate of data flow in digital networks typically measured in bits per second
- n. The capacity, energy or time required
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The maximum rate of information transfer (measured in bits/second) that can be carried by a communication channel.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel
Examples
“This is because the term bandwidth is propaganda aimed towards stretching the painful process of a company with technological and consumer preferences grossly outdated.”
“I loved the late Robert Anton Wilson's use of the term "reality tunnel" and am a big believer that we are all programmed into one or another worldview, but that continual deliberate exposure to ideas outside your bandwidth is the best counter agent against this there is.”
“Your paying for this bandwidth is the least of their concerns, profitability is all that counts.”
“With satellite Internet the bandwidth is asynchronous – the download is much higher than the upload.”
“Try video - where both latency and bandwidth matter - or VOIP where the bandwidth is a measly 64Kbps but where latency matters.”
“The term bandwidth, in my experience which is similar to Bleier’s, has many different meanings; in my company, it means the range of products offered.”
“Behemoth ISPs want and use bandwidth metering because all that extra bandwidth is used by their customers for downloading movies and watching movies online which eventually renders CABLE TV obsolete.”
“And ofcourse, international bandwidth is not cheap, thanks to government policies that resulted in creation of what certainly looks like a cartel in bandwidth supply.”
“For instance, there are a lot of companies with fiber on the trans-Atlantic route, and as a result, a lot of bandwidth is available there for cheap.”
“The $360 million estimate in bandwidth costs for Youtube seems inflated.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bandwidth’.
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Topical
The buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 727 more...
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COLLOCATIONS - B
English collocations beginning with the letter 'B'.
The chronologically first 1450 entries come from the Stockdale Collocation Dictionary.butt-shaped mark, button-down shirt, busy intersection, business-to-business, by-pass surgery, business-oriented, business travelers, business-administ..., buying power, business-mad, business-financed..., business success and 1503 more...
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Visuals
A list of words which yield surprising, beautiful, amusing, or otherwise noteworthy images here on Wordnik.
photochrom, fufluns, thank you, cool l..., postcard, picture postcard, cricket, physiological ill..., Gakuryū Ishii, ametropia, One Froggy Evening, rhodopsin, Santiago Calatrava and 624 more...
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bbc uk china vocab.
conservationists, estimate, threats, infertility, eating away at, endangered, furry, panel, in trouble, gongs, triumphed, caps and 563 more...
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Especially
Being a list of words which have "especially" in their definitions.
wringing-machine, especially, device, field, scrip, hit, catch, take, buck, flip, effluvium, proselyte and 100 more...
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parker's list
Words I hate that get used at work.
robust, bandwidth, content, capacity, in addition, next generation, advanced, best, 100%
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Words I won't use in copy or speech
They come, they go, their overuse makes me nuts. I have been known to ban them from delivered copy. Near pandemic in presentations and business-speak.
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Managementese
These are words to avoid at all costs. As Scott Berkun has said, the people who use the most jargon have the least confidence in their ideas. These are the words of passive aggression, of mild verb...
transitioning, agreeance, key, core, ideation, action, bandwidth, impactfulness, monetize
whichbe A term for event planners to determine how wide a stage a band needs. Oct 10, 2008