bandwidth
37
4.3
- noun
- /ˈbændˌwɪdθ/
- Specialized
:
ancho de banda
- Optical fiber now carries most long-distance telecommunication, and the bandwidth-distance product is doubling annually.
- available bandwidth
- high bandwidth
- low bandwidth
We share it with a very low bandwidth channel, so.
- We share it with a very low bandwidth channel, so.
- So vision is probably the highest bandwidth sensor.
- Time to get some more bandwidth on your server.
- And DNA is a very, very low bandwidth medium.
- So well, I mean your brain was designed for high bandwidth through your eyes, say in ears, right.
- The idea is that we'll hopefully see USBC as more of a high bandwidth display port.
- And you know, for example, our vision only sees a very small bandwidth of what is there to see.
- So it's a, it's a rectangular chip with, with a super fast, super high bandwidth connection between them.
- RAM in dual channel for increased bandwidth, but it was just Dumber.
- And in the step with that, there is also a memory bandwidth change memory bus with increase.
- But it does create a bandwidth drain.
Examples
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The first residential Internet systems connected personal computers through low-bandwidth links into an Internet of relatively high-speed links.
Academic text (2012) -
Can everyone who wants to connect do so because there is enough bandwidth to handle the traffic?
Academic text (2011) -
Many rural areas experience connection problems and have low bandwidth access, which limits the use of some applications.
Academic text (2013) -
The significantly higher bandwidth of the memory system makes the improvement factor greater than two.
Academic text (1994) -
Using Wi-Fi also supports a lot higher a bandwidth for audio streaming.
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The new fiber optic line offers much higher bandwidth, allowing us to stream movies without buffering.
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To improve video call quality, we need to increase our bandwidth during peak usage hours.
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When the server's bandwidth was upgraded, users noticed a significant improvement in download speeds.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
How fast someone or something moves
2
3.4
The speed at which digital information moves through a connection, measured in bits per second
2
4.2
The speed at which digital data is sent or processed in bits per second
1
6.1
Largest amount of data a channel can send without errors, usually measured in bits per second
How much data a network connection can carry each second
Antonyms
How Fast
- Specialized
3
4.0
- Texting
45
2.8
- Specialized
37
4.3
- Specialized
1
6.5
- Archaic
4
3.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bandwidth comes from joining band (a 'range' of radio waves or signals) and width ('how wide'). So it literally means the 'width' of that signal range — how much data can move at once, like how many cars fit on a road, which is why bandwidth measures how fast a connection can send data.