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📶 A limited signal 📡 Small frequency range 🔧 To limit frequencies
to narrowband

to narrowband

8.1
To change a signal so it uses a small range of frequencies
  • verb
  • /ˈnɛroʊˌbænd/
  • Specialized
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  • Engineers will narrowband the signal to reduce interference from other frequencies.

Examples

  • To improve efficiency, the team decided to narrowband the radio channels used for emergency services.

  • The engineers narrowbanded the transmission to avoid interference.

  • The company plans to narrowband its communication systems to meet new regulations.

  • We need to narrowband this signal for better clarity.

  • The engineers will narrowband the signal to enhance voice clarity during the communication.

  • To comply with the new standards, we need to narrowband our data channels effectively.

  • To minimize interference from other devices, the team has decided to narrowband the radio transmission.

Antonyms

to widen
  • Specialized
2 7.2

To change a small number into a bigger kind of number used in computers

How Narrow

to narrowband
  • Specialized
8.1
to widen
85 2.5

Surface Forms

narrowband infinitive
narrowbanded past
narrowbanded past participle
narrowbanding present participle
narrowbands third person singular

Etymology

To narrowband something is to make it use a 'narrow' 'band' of frequencies by reducing how many frequencies it uses. That's why engineers narrowband a system: to keep its signal inside a small range and reduce interference.