bandwidth

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Etymology

band +‎ width

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈbændwɪdθ/, /ˈbændwɪtθ/

Noun

bandwidth (plural bandwidths)

1. The width, usually measured in hertz, of a frequency band.
   • 2010 October 30, Jim Giles, Jammed!, in New Scientist,

     But now is a good time to be bargaining for bandwidth, as the switch from analogue to digital television is freeing up space.

2. Of a signal, the width of the smallest frequency band within which the signal can fit
3. (networking) The rate of data flow in digital networks typically measured in bits per second
4. (informal) The capacity, energy or time required

   I think it's a worthy project, but I just don't have the bandwidth right now.

Translations

width of a frequency band

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 帶寬 (cmn), 带宽 (cmn) (dàikuān), 頻帶 (cmn), 频带 (cmn) (píndài), 頻寬 (cmn), 频宽 (cmn) (pínkuān)

• Dutch: bandbreedte (nl) f
• Finnish: kaistanleveys (fi)
• French: bande passante (fr)
• German: Bandbreite (de) f

• Greek: εύρος ζώνης (el) (évros zónis)
• Hungarian: sávszélesség (hu)
• Japanese: 帯域幅 (ja) (たいいきはば, taiikihaba)
• Macedonian: ширина на опсег (mk) (šírina na ópseg) f
• Polish: szerokość pasma (pl)
• Portuguese: largura de banda (pt)
• Russian: ширина полосы (ru) (širiná polosý) f
• Spanish: ancho de banda (es) m

width of the smallest frequency band within which the signal can fit

• Finnish: kaistanleveys (fi)
• French: bande passante (fr)
• German: Bandbreite (de) f
• Greek: εύρος ζώνης (el) (évros zónis)

• Macedonian: ширина на опсег (mk) (šírina na ópseg) f
• Portuguese: largura de banda (pt)
• Spanish: ancho de banda (es) m

measure of data flow rate in digital networks

• Dutch: bandbreedte (nl) c
• Finnish: siirtonopeus (fi), kaistanleveys (fi), kaista (fi)
• French: débit (fr), bande passante (fr)
• German: Bandbreite (de) f
• Greek: εύρος ζώνης (el) (évros zónis) n
• Hebrew: רוחב פס (he) (rohav pas) m
• Macedonian: појасна ширина (mk) (pójasna šírina) f, ширина на опсег (mk) (šírina na ópseg) f

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: båndbredde (no) m, båndvidde (no) m and f

• Portuguese: largura de banda (pt)
• Russian: пропускная способность (ru) (propusknája sposóbnostʹ) f, ширина полосы (ru) (širiná polosý) f
• Spanish: ancho de banda (es) m

See also

• bandshape
• broadband