noun
bandwidth
a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel
In a sentence
Six example sentences with bandwidth, each labelled with its topic.
Fiber gave the school enough bandwidth for four hundred tablets to stream a lesson without anyone buffering.
Technology
The tournament rejected the venue because its shared bandwidth collapsed whenever the neighboring hall ran a livestream.
Gaming
Rural branches pay triple for half the bandwidth, which is why the chain still faxes its nightly totals.
Business
The radio telescope produces more data than its bandwidth to the city can carry, so drives travel by truck each week.
Science
Streaming a film in full resolution needs far more bandwidth than the cabin's satellite link could offer.
Movies
The startup's video app squeezes a call into a tenth of the usual bandwidth, which is why rural clinics adopted it first.
Startups
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