1Electronics A range of frequencies within a given band, in particular that used for transmitting a signal.
〔电子〕（频率）带宽，尤指
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Once the installation vibrations have been mitigated, low-cost gyros need to have bandwidths in the range of 50-70 Hz for adequate processing of high-frequency components of flight angular motion.
Since kinetic energy increases with increasing frequency, the bandwidth of the low-frequency regime is limited.
The spectra show a large variation in spectral features like the number of bands, bandwidths, and their polarization behavior.
The large bandwidths of the bands reflected the short lifetime of these states due to fast exciton relaxation.
Monetarists believe that money supply should be kept within an acceptable bandwidth so that levels of inflation can be controlled.
1.1The transmission capacity of a computer network or other telecommunication system.
（电脑网络或其他电讯系统的）传输容量
posting separately wastes bandwidth and disk space
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That means that during the past few days we had to temporarily turn your site off to keep the bandwidth within this limit.
In a period of two weeks we measured the bandwidth of 54,845 peers downloading over a hundred newly injected files.
As the sheer amount of bandwidth running across public networks increases, so do power requirements.
It is also the amount of cache memory rather than the memory bandwidth that determines the speed of the system in popular games.
Traffic is sampled in five-minute intervals, and the average bandwidth for the five minutes is calculated.
2The energy or mental capacity required to deal with a situation.
he lives alone, and says he doesn't have the bandwidth to handle a steady relationship
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The job of the modern presidency is so complex, so taxing, so intense that one's disposition even more than one's mental bandwidth may be the key to handling the job.
Clients who want to know whether the firm has the time or the ability to handle a project ask if we have the bandwidth'.
I guess for the most part of this year I felt like I don't have a lot of bandwidth to deal with all of that.
Driving a car eats up a lot more mental bandwidth than sitting on a plane.
I'm being careful about who I'm handing my résumé to. I don't have the bandwidth to meet with everyone.
You will have time and mental bandwidth to form your thoughts better.
With a little more mental bandwidth this summer, I started re-viewing the earliest footage we shot for my grandfather's documentary.
You really don't use all the mental bandwidth you have when you're playing these games.
Definition of bandwidth in US English:
bandwidth
nounˈbandˌwidTHˈbændˌwɪdθ
1Electronics A range of frequencies within a given band, in particular that used for transmitting a signal.
〔电子〕（频率）带宽，尤指
Example sentencesExamples
The spectra show a large variation in spectral features like the number of bands, bandwidths, and their polarization behavior.
The large bandwidths of the bands reflected the short lifetime of these states due to fast exciton relaxation.
Once the installation vibrations have been mitigated, low-cost gyros need to have bandwidths in the range of 50-70 Hz for adequate processing of high-frequency components of flight angular motion.
Since kinetic energy increases with increasing frequency, the bandwidth of the low-frequency regime is limited.
Monetarists believe that money supply should be kept within an acceptable bandwidth so that levels of inflation can be controlled.
1.1The transmission capacity of a computer network or other telecommunication system.
（电脑网络或其他电讯系统的）传输容量
Example sentencesExamples
Traffic is sampled in five-minute intervals, and the average bandwidth for the five minutes is calculated.
As the sheer amount of bandwidth running across public networks increases, so do power requirements.
In a period of two weeks we measured the bandwidth of 54,845 peers downloading over a hundred newly injected files.
It is also the amount of cache memory rather than the memory bandwidth that determines the speed of the system in popular games.
That means that during the past few days we had to temporarily turn your site off to keep the bandwidth within this limit.
2The energy or mental capacity required to deal with a situation.
he lives alone, and says he doesn't have the bandwidth to handle a steady relationship
Example sentencesExamples
With a little more mental bandwidth this summer, I started re-viewing the earliest footage we shot for my grandfather's documentary.
The job of the modern presidency is so complex, so taxing, so intense that one's disposition even more than one's mental bandwidth may be the key to handling the job.
You really don't use all the mental bandwidth you have when you're playing these games.
Clients who want to know whether the firm has the time or the ability to handle a project ask if we have the bandwidth'.
I guess for the most part of this year I felt like I don't have a lot of bandwidth to deal with all of that.
You will have time and mental bandwidth to form your thoughts better.
I'm being careful about who I'm handing my résumé to. I don't have the bandwidth to meet with everyone.
Driving a car eats up a lot more mental bandwidth than sitting on a plane.