frequency
noun/ˈfriːkwənsi/
(plural frequencies)
Слово англійською: frequency
Переклад frequency українською: частота́, часто́тність
Детальний опис
- [uncountable, countable] the rate at which something happens or is repeated
- Fatal road accidents have decreased in frequency over recent years.
- Dawn was then visiting New York with increasing frequency.
- a society with a high/low frequency (= happening often/not very often) of stable marriages
- Users will be able to rearrange their icons by frequency of use.
- The program can show us word frequency (= how often words occur in a language).
- [uncountable] the fact of something happening often
- the alarming frequency of computer errors
- The relative frequency of this illness in the area is of concern to all doctors.
- with… frequency Objects like this turn up at sales with surprising frequency.
- Bullets bounced off the rock with alarming frequency.
- [countable, uncountable] (specialist) the rate at which a sound or electromagnetic wave vibrates (= moves up and down)
- a high/low frequency
- Electromagnetic waves of radio frequency can make molecules vibrate and heat up.
Wordfinder- amplitude
- atom
- energy
- fission
- force
- frequency
- gravity
- molecule
- nuclear
- physics
- [countable, uncountable] (specialist) the number of radio waves for every second of a radio signal
- a frequency band
- an FM radio frequency
- There are only a limited number of broadcasting frequencies.
Word Originmid 16th cent. (gradually superseding late Middle English frequence; originally denoting a gathering of people): from Latin frequentia, from frequens, frequent- ‘crowded, frequent’.