bandwidth

n.

1.

The maximum rate of information transfer (measured in bits/second) that can be carried by a communication channel.

Noun

1.

bandwidth - a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel

(communications)

bandwidth - The difference between the highest and lowest frequencies of a transmission channel (the width of its allocated band of frequencies). The term is often used erroneously to mean data rate or capacity - the amount of data that is, or can be, sent through a given communications circuit per second.

information measure