bandwidth

4 definitions found

bandwidth - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  bandwidth \band"width`\ n.
     The maximum rate of information transfer (measured in
     bits/second) that can be carried by a communication channel.
     "The bandwidth of an analog telephone line is less than 100
     kilobits per second."
     [WordNet 1.5]

bandwidth - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  bandwidth
      n 1: a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information
           (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel

bandwidth - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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)
  

bandwidth - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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; see also brainwidth. 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.