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bandwidth [n][en]
 
1)a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel
    Synonyms :largura_de_banda ancho_de_banda пропускная_способность 带宽 larghezza_di_banda bande_passante bandbreite 대역폭 帯域幅 
    See Also: information_measure 
 

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

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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