narrowband
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- adjective
- /ˈnɛroʊˌbænd/
- Specialized
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- Since they are narrowband transmitters, frequency hoppers can utilize more than 100 distinct frequencies within the license-free band in accordance with a pre-set hopping algorithm designed to maintain synchronization of the remote units with the master.
- narrowband filters
- narrowband imaging
Examples
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By employing narrowband filters, the astrophotographer successfully isolated the vibrant colors of distant galaxies.
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Doesn't matter whether you send things, broadband, narrowband, whatever, It's all the same answer.
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Scale of narrowband speech of low bitrate in six kilobits per second to stereo music of high quality in 510 kilobits per second.
Blog text (8) -
No allowance has been made for the loudness summation most hearing-impaired subjects experience when listening to broadband stimuli as compared with narrowband stimuli.
Academic text (1993) -
Most recently, coping has been conceptualized in terms of multiple, narrowband, empirically derived dimensions rather than broadband categories (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984).
Academic text (2003) -
As an example, consider several pulsed, moderately narrowband signals that are sent at adjacent frequencies, say 1 kHz to 1 MHz apart, such that they become differentially delayed by dispersion in the interstellar plasma.
Academic text (1999) -
The narrowband imaging technique helps astronomers capture details of nebulae that would otherwise be invisible.
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Recent advancements in narrowband technology enhance the clarity of signals in communication systems.
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Etymology
The word narrowband comes from narrow ('small, not wide') and band ('a range' or 'strip'), so it describes something that uses a 'small range' of radio or data frequencies. That's why a narrowband signal is one that uses only a thin slice of frequencies to send information.