Bandwidth

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Bandwidth commonly refers to:

  • Bandwidth (signal processing) or analog bandwidth, frequency bandwidth, or radio bandwidth, a measure of the width of a frequency range
  • Bandwidth (computing), the rate of data transfer, bit rate or throughput
  • Spectral linewidth, the width of an atomic or molecular spectral line

Bandwidth may also refer to:

Science and technology

  • Bandwidth (linear algebra), the width of the non-zero terms around the diagonal of a matrix
  • Kernel density estimation, the width of the convolution kernel used in statistics
  • Graph bandwidth, in graph theory
  • Coherence bandwidth, a frequency range over which a channel can be considered "flat"
  • Power bandwidth, a frequency range for which power output of an amplifier exceeds a given fraction of full rated power

Other uses

  • Bandwidth (company), an American communications provider
  • Bandwidth (radio program), a Canadian radio program
  • Bandwidth, a normative expected range of linguistic behavior in language expectancy theory
  • Bandwidth, the resources needed to complete a task or project in business jargon; see List of buzzwords

See also

  • Bit rate, in telecommunications and computing
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