frequency - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Latin frequentia, from frequens. English equivalent frequent + -cy.
frequency (countable and uncountable, plural frequencies)
- (uncountable or countable) The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period.
With growing confidence, the Viking’s raids increased in frequency.
The frequency of bus service has been improved from one every 15 to one every 12 minutes.
- (uncountable) The property of occurring often rather than infrequently.
The FAQ addresses questions that come up with some frequency.
The frequency of the visits was what annoyed him.
- (countable) 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.
The frequency of a wave is its velocity
divided by its wavelength
:
.
Broadcasting live at a frequency of 98.3 megahertz, we’re your rock alternative!
The frequency for electric power in the Americas is generally 60 Hz rather than 50.
1976, James Martin, Telecommunications and the Computer:
36 MHz transponder providing a pool of 794 reallocatable frequencies.
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.
- A tone, character, mood, or vibe
2023 August 31, Frankie de la Cretaz, “Postcard from Camp Gaylore”, in Cosmopolitan[1]:
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.
- (statistics) number of times an event occurred in an experiment (absolute frequency)
- (rate of occurrence): oftenness; see also Thesaurus:commonness and Thesaurus:frequency
- freq
- (antonym(s) of “rate of occurrence”): period
- angular frequency
- audio frequency
- bifrequency
- cyclofrequency
- dual-frequency
- dual tone multi-frequency
- eigenfrequency
- equifrequency
- extremely low frequency
- frecency
- frequency assignment
- frequency channel
- frequency distribution
- frequency domain
- 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
rate of occurrence of anything
- Arabic: تَرَدُّد (ar) m (taraddud)
- Aragonese: freqüencia f
- Armenian: հաճախականություն (hy) (hačaxakanutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: tezlik
- Belarusian: частата́ f (častatá), ча́стасць f (částascʹ)
- Bulgarian: честота́ (bg) f (čestotá)
- Burmese: အကြိမ် (my) (a.krim)
- Catalan: freqüència (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Czech: četnost n, frekvence (cs) f
- Danish: hyppighed (da) c
- Dutch: frequentie (nl) f
- Esperanto: ofto
- Faroese: tíðføri n, tíðleiki m, tídd f
- Finnish: taajuus (fi), (statistical) frekvenssi (fi)
- French: fréquence (fr) f
- Galician: frecuencia (gl) f
- Georgian: სიხშირე (sixšire)
- German: Häufigkeit (de) f, Frequenz (de) f, Regelmäßigkeit (de) f
- Greek: συχνότητα (el) f (sychnótita)
- Hebrew: תדירות (he) f (tedirút)
- Hindi: आवृत्ति (hi) f (āvŕtti)
- Hungarian: gyakoriság (hu), ismétlődés (hu)
- Icelandic: tíðni (is) f
- Indonesian: frekuensi (id)
- Italian: frequenza (it) f
- Japanese: 頻度 (ja) (ひんど, hindo)
- Kazakh: жиілік (jiılık)
- Korean: 빈도 (ko) (bindo)
- Kyrgyz: жыштык (ky) (jıştık)
- Lao: ຄວາມຖີ່ (lo) (khuām thī)
- Latin: crēbritās f
- Macedonian: че́стота f (čéstota)
- Malay: kekerapan (ms), frekuensi (ms)
- Maori: auautanga
- Marathi: वारंवारता f (vārauvārtā)
- Norwegian:
- Persian: بسامد (fa) (basâmad)
- Polish: częstość (pl) f, częstotliwość (pl) f
- Portuguese: frequência (pt) f
- Romanian: frecvență (ro) f
- Russian: частота́ (ru) f (častotá)
- Scottish Gaelic: bitheantas m, tricead m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: učestalost (sh) f, čestoća f, čestost (sh) f, učestanost
- Slovak: frekvencia (sk) f, početnosť f
- Slovene: pogostost f
- Spanish: frecuencia (es) f
- Swedish: frekvens (sv)
- Tagalog: dalas
- Tajik: басомад (basomad)
- Thai: ความถี่ (th) (kwaam-tìi)
- Turkish: frekans (tr)
- Ukrainian: ча́стість f (částistʹ), частота́ (uk) f (častotá)
- Uzbek: tezlik (uz)
- Vietnamese: tính thường xuyên
- West Frisian: frekwinsje
property of occurring often rather than infrequently
- Aragonese: freqüencia f
- Armenian: հաճախություն (hy) (hačaxutʻyun)
- Belarusian: частата́ f (častatá)
- Catalan: freqüència (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Czech: častost n, frekvence (cs) f
- Dutch: regelmaat (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: ofteco
- Faroese: tíðføri n, tíðleiki m, tídd f
- Finnish: yleisyys (fi)
- French: fréquence (fr) f
- Galician: frecuencia (gl) f
- German: Häufigkeit (de) f
- Greek: συχνότητα (el) f (sychnótita)
- Hungarian: gyakoriság (hu)
- Italian: frequenza (it)
- Macedonian: че́стота f (čéstota)
- Malay: kekerapan (ms)
- Norwegian:
- Polish: częstość (pl) f
- Portuguese: frequência (pt) f
- Romanian: desime (ro) f, frecvență (ro) f
- Scottish Gaelic: bitheantas m, tricead m
- Slovak: frekvencia (sk) f, častosť f
- Spanish: frecuencia (es) f
- Tagalog: dalas
- Thai: ความถี่ (th) (kwaam-tìi)
- Turkish: frekans (tr)
- Ukrainian: частота́ (uk) f (častotá)
The quotient of the number of times a periodic phenomenon occurs over the time in which it occurs
number of occurrences divided by time
- Arabic: تَرَدُّد (ar) m (taraddud)
- Aragonese: freqüencia f
- Armenian: հաճախություն (hy) (hačaxutʻyun)
- Belarusian: частата́ f (častatá)
- Bengali: কম্পাঙ্ক (kompaṅko)
- Bulgarian: честота́ (bg) f (čestotá)
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: freqüència (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Czech: frekvence (cs) f, kmitočet (cs) m (of radio frequency)
- Danish: frekvens n
- Dutch: frequentie (nl) f
- Esperanto: frekvenco
- Faroese: tíðføri n, tíðleiki m, tídd f
- Finnish: taajuus (fi)
- French: fréquence (fr) f
- Galician: frecuencia (gl) f
- German: Frequenz (de) f
- Greek: συχνότητα (el) f (sychnótita)
- Hebrew: תדירות (he) f (tedirút), תדר m (téder) (used for a radio station or a two-way radio device)
- Hungarian: frekvencia (hu)
- Icelandic: tíðni (is) f
- Italian: frequenza (it) f
- Japanese: 周波数 (ja) (shūhasū)
- Khmer: ប្រេកង់ (preekɑng)
- Korean: 진동수 (ko) (jindongsu)
- Lao: ຄວາມຖີ່ (lo) (khuām thī)
- Latvian: frekvence (lv) f
- Macedonian: че́стота f (čéstota), фрекве́нција f (frekvéncija)
- Malay: frekuensi (ms)
- Norwegian: frekvens (no) m
- Persian: فرکانس (fa) (ferekâns)
- Polish: częstotliwość (pl) f
- Portuguese: frequência (pt) f
- Romanian: frecvență (ro) f
- Russian: частота́ (ru) f (častotá)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: фреквѐнција f
- Roman: frekvèncija (sh) f
- Slovak: frekvencia (sk) f, kmitočet (sk) m
- Slovene: frekvenca (sl) f, pogostost f
- Spanish: frecuencia (es) f
- Swedish: frekvens (sv)
- Tagalog: dalas
- Thai: ความถี่ (th) (kwaam-tìi)
- Turkish: frekans (tr)
- Ukrainian: частота́ (uk) f (častotá)
- Uzbek: chastota (uz)
- Vietnamese: tần số (vi)
Translations to be checked
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.