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De - Pt| English Dictionary: bandwidth' | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for bandwidth' | |
| From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
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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}. 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 (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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bandwidth 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) | |
