frequency
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Etymology
From LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#FREQUENCY frequentia, from frequens. By surface analysis, frequent + -cyCategory:English terms suffixed with -cy#FREQUENCY.
Pronunciation
Noun
frequency (countable and uncountable, plural frequencies)Category:English lemmas#FREQUENCYCategory:English nouns#FREQUENCYCategory:English uncountable nouns#FREQUENCYCategory:English countable nouns#FREQUENCYCategory:English countable nouns#FREQUENCYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FREQUENCYCategory:Pages with entries#FREQUENCYCategory:Pages with 1 entry#FREQUENCY
- (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#FREQUENCY or countableCategory:English countable nouns#FREQUENCY) The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period.
- With growing confidence, the Viking’s raids increased in frequency.Category:English terms with usage examples#FREQUENCY
- The frequency of bus service has been improved from one every 15 to one every 12 minutes.Category:English terms with usage examples#FREQUENCY
- (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#FREQUENCY) The property of occurring often rather than infrequently.
- The FAQ addresses questions that come up with some frequency.Category:English terms with usage examples#FREQUENCY
- The frequency of the visits was what annoyed him.Category:English terms with usage examples#FREQUENCY
- (countableCategory:English countable nouns#FREQUENCY) The quotient of the number of times a periodic phenomenon occurs over the time in which it occurs: .
- The frequency of the musical note A above middle C is 440 oscillations per second.Category:English terms with usage examples#FREQUENCY
- The frequency of a wave is its velocity divided by its wavelength : .Category:English terms with usage examples#FREQUENCY
- Broadcasting live at a frequency of 98.3 megahertz, we’re your rock alternative!Category:English terms with usage examples#FREQUENCY
- The frequency for electric power in the Americas is generally 60 Hz rather than 50.Category:English terms with usage examples#FREQUENCY
- 1958 January, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 15:
- […] the Plan incorporates in proper combination every available modern technique, including extensive electrification on the new standard high-voltage a.c. system at a frequency of 50 cycles; main-line diesel traction as a half-way house to electrification; lightweight diesel trains for secondary and branch services; and a smaller wagon fleet doing more work by the use of continuous brakes in conjunction with modernised terminals and marshalling yards.Category:English terms with quotations#FREQUENCY
- 1976, James Martin, Telecommunications and the Computer:
- 36 MHz transponder providing a pool of 794 reallocatable frequencies.Category:English terms with quotations#FREQUENCY
- 2015, Patrick R. Nicolas, Scala for Machine Learning, page 109:
- In this case, a band-pass filter using a range or window of frequencies is appropriate to isolate the frequency or the group of frequencies that characterize a specific cycle.Category:English terms with quotations#FREQUENCY
- A tone, character, mood, or vibe
- 2023 August 31, Frankie de la Cretaz, “Postcard from Camp Gaylore”, in Cosmopolitan:
- And if you haven’t picked up on the gay frequencies in her lyrics, her wig choices, and her possible lesbian salutes? Maybe that’s because they weren’t meant for you. IYKYK.Category:English terms with quotations#FREQUENCY
- (statisticsCategory:en:Statistics#FREQUENCY) number of times an event occurred in an experiment (absolute frequency)
- (telecommunicationsCategory:en:Telecommunications#FREQUENCY) range of electromagnetic waves used for wireless communication in devices like radios, TVs and mobile phones
Synonyms
- (rate of occurrence): oftenness; see also Thesaurus:commonness and Thesaurus:frequency
- freq
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “rate of occurrence”): period
Derived terms
- angular frequency
- audio frequency
- beat frequency oscillator
- bifrequency
- Coriolis frequency
- cyclofrequency
- dual-frequency
- dual tone multi-frequency
- eigenfrequency
- equifrequency
- extremely low frequency
- frecency
- frequency assignment
- frequency band
- frequency channel
- frequency dictionary
- frequency distribution
- frequency domain
- frequency illusion
- frequency list
- frequency modulation
- frequency multiplier
- frequency shift keying
- frequency-shift keying
- fundamental frequency
- gyrofrequency
- high frequency
- high-frequency
- high frequency gravitational wave
- high-frequency gravitational wave
- high-frequency trading
- intermediate frequency
- isofrequency
- Larmor frequency
- maximum usable frequency
- midfrequency
- monofrequency
- multifrequency
- overfrequency
- Planck angular frequency
- Planck frequency
- radio-frequency
- radio frequency
- radio-frequency identification
- radio frequency integrated circuit
- relative frequency
- sub-audio frequency
- subfrequency
- super high frequency
- time and frequency transfer
- time frequency adverbial
- time-frequency analysis
- time-frequency representation
- trifrequency
- ultra high frequency
- ultra low frequency
- underfrequency
- unifrequency
- very high frequency
Related terms
Translations
rate of occurrence of anything
property of occurring often rather than infrequently
The quotient of the number of times a periodic phenomenon occurs over the time in which it occurs
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number of occurrences divided by time
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See also
Further reading
Frequency (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “frequency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “frequency”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “frequency”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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