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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) bandwidth
the smallest range of electronic frequencies constituting a band, within which a particular signal can be transmitted without distortion.

2. bandwidth
the transmission capacity of an electronic communications device.

Etymology: (1925–30)

Definition of 'bandwidth'

Princeton's WordNet

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

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The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. bandwidth
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.

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Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

1. bandwidth
The difference between the limiting frequencies of a continuous frequency band expressed in hertz (cycles per second). The term bandwidth is also loosely used to refer to the rate at which data can be transmitted over a given communications circuit. In the latter usage, bandwidth is usually expressed in either kilobits per second or megabits per second.

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