bandwidth
<communications> 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)
Nearby terms:
Banach-Tarski paradox « banana label « banana
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bandwidth » bang » bang on » bang path
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