frequency
English dictionary entry
Meanings
noun
- The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period.
- The property of occurring often rather than infrequently.
- The quotient of the number of times n a periodic phenomenon occurs over the time t in which it occurs: f=n/t.
- A tone, character, mood, or vibe
- number of times an event occurred in an experiment (absolute frequency)
- range of electromagnetic waves used for wireless communication in devices like radios, TVs and mobile phones
Pronunciation
frĕʹkwən-sē
/ˈfɹiːkwənsi/
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/friˈkwɛnsi/
Word forms
frequency
frequencies
frequence
Etymology
From Latin frequentia, from frequens. By surface analysis, frequent + -cy.
Antonyms
Related words
frequent
frequentative
frequenter
cadence
commonness
occurrence
periodicity
usual
common
rare
very rare
extremely rare
non-occurring
always
almost always
very often
usually
more often than not
as often as not
often
frequently
sometimes
occasionally
rarely
seldom
infrequently
very rarely
hardly ever
almost never
never
once
twice
thrice
three times
four times
five times
minutely
hourly
daily
weekly
biweekly
monthly
yearly
annual
biennial
centennial
centenary
millennial
decamillennial
once per second
once a second
once every second
once a minute
twice a day
annually
biennially
hertz
kilohertz
megahertz
gigahertz
Derived words
angular frequency
audio frequency
beat frequency oscillator
bifrequency
Coriolis frequency
cyclofrequency
dual-frequency
dual tone multi-frequency
eigenfrequency
equifrequency
extremely low frequency
frecency
frequency assignment
frequency band
frequency channel
frequency dictionary
frequency distribution
frequency domain
frequency illusion
frequency list
frequency modulation
frequency multiplier
frequency shift keying
frequency-shift keying
fundamental frequency
gyrofrequency
high frequency
high-frequency
high frequency gravitational wave
high-frequency gravitational wave
high-frequency trading
intermediate frequency
isofrequency
Larmor frequency
maximum usable frequency
midfrequency
monofrequency
multifrequency
overfrequency
Planck angular frequency
Planck frequency
radio-frequency
radio frequency
radio-frequency identification
radio frequency integrated circuit
relative frequency
sub-audio frequency
subfrequency
super high frequency
time and frequency transfer
time frequency adverbial
time-frequency analysis
time-frequency representation
trifrequency
ultra high frequency
ultra low frequency
underfrequency
unifrequency
very high frequency
Translations
Arabic: تَرَدُّد
Aragonese: freqüencia
Armenian: հաճախություն
Azerbaijani: tezlik
Belarusian: частата́
Bengali: কম্পাঙ্ক
Bulgarian: честота́
Catalan: freqüència
Chinese Mandarin: 頻數 /频数
Czech: frekvence
Czech: kmitočet
Danish: frekvens
Dutch: frequentie
Esperanto: frekvenco
Faroese: tíðføri
Faroese: tíðleiki
Faroese: tídd
Finnish: taajuus
French: fréquence
Galician: frecuencia
German: Frequenz
Greek: συχνότητα
Hebrew: תדירות
Hebrew: תדר
Hungarian: frekvencia
Icelandic: tíðni
Italian: frequenza
Japanese: 周波数
Khmer: ប្រេកង់
Korean: 진동수
Lao: ຄວາມຖີ່
Latvian: frekvence
Macedonian: че́стота
Macedonian: фрекве́нција
Malay: frekuensi
Norwegian: frekvens
Persian: فرکانس
Polish: częstotliwość
Portuguese: frequência
Romanian: frecvență
Russian: частота́
Serbo-Croatian: фреквѐнција
Serbo-Croatian: frekvèncija
Slovak: frekvencia
Slovak: kmitočet
Slovene: frekvenca
Slovene: pogostost
Spanish: frecuencia
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