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Synonyms for frequency

Grammar : Noun
Spell : free-kwuhn-see
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfri kwən si

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Définition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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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