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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : free-kwuhn-see |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfri kwən si |
Definition of frequency
Origin :- 1640s, "fact of occurring often," from Latin frequentia "a crowding, crowd," from frequentem (see frequent).
- Earlier it had been used in a now-obsolete sense of "state of being crowded" (mid-16c.); sense in physics, "rate of recurrence," especially of a vibration, is from 1831. In radio electronics, frequency modulation (1922, abbreviated F.M.) as a system of broadcasting is distinguished from amplitude modulation (or A.M.).
- noun commonness, repetitiveness
- The Indians, however, continued friendly with him and visited him with frequency.
- Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson
- Maneuvering continues, but actual encounters have declined in frequency.
- Extract from : « The Outbreak of Peace » by Horace Brown Fyfe
- Is it the frequency of the punishment that has made you callous to the ignominy and the pain?
- Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 » by Various
- It will be necessary next for us to determine how far frequency 1.
- Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin
- The frequency with which they change their encampments is another point.
- Extract from : « The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians » by Xenophon
- Who either doubts the enormity of drunkenness or its frequency?
- Extract from : « Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General » by Charles Lever
- On the other hand, his original view of it reasserted itself with frequency.
- Extract from : « A Great Man » by Arnold Bennett
- There were waves of force all about me, varying in frequency.
- Extract from : « Cogito, Ergo Sum » by John Foster West
- This is readily accounted for not only by its frequency, but by its conspicuousness.
- Extract from : « My Studio Neighbors » by William Hamilton Gibson
- And, since the frequency was so high, a special detector was required to pick it up.
- Extract from : « Islands of Space » by John W Campbell
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