Frequency, speed, time
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frequency | American Dictionary

frequency
noun
us/ˈfri·kwən·si/
[ C ] physics
the number of times that a wave is produced within a particular period, esp. within one second:
Dogs can hear very high frequencies.

frequencynoun (COMMON)

[ U ]
the number of times something is repeated, or the fact of something happening often:
Houses are sold here with greater frequency than in most other parts of the country.

frequency | Business English

frequency
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ˈfriːkwənsi/us
the number of times something happens within a particular period, or the fact of something happening often or a large number of times:
Once a week is a good frequency to back up all the data.
the frequency of sthCost-conscious retailers are reducing the frequency of cash collections.
We can surely do better in reducing the frequency and intensity of emerging market financial crises.
with greater/increasing frequencySkirmishes between privacy advocates and those collecting information are occurring with increasing frequency.
Some trusts limit the frequency with which a loan can be modified.
COMMUNICATIONS
the number of times that a wave, especially a sound or radio wave, is produced within a particular period, especially one second:
The transmitter sends out a pulse of sound at a frequency of 6 kilohertz.

Examples of frequency

frequency
Thus, at higher frequencies, heating patterns are more spread out and tend to deliver lesser heating than at lower frequencies.
Because gene frequencies are generally presumed to change in phylogeny, then it is suggested that genes must be doing the real work in ontogeny.
We calculate the coverage of a cluster by adding the frequencies of the traces clustered.
To avoid too small expected frequencies, the value codes 2 and 3 were merged for the six extrinsic problems measured at age 13.
Different parents judge the frequencies necessary to fall into such categories very differently.
A chi-squared test was used to compare the frequencies of the responses in different classes.
The frequencies of some of these nouns are generally much lower than those considered in previous studies.
The token frequencies of these were discussed earlier in note 9.
Each distinct form provides a count of one, but the token frequencies for each particular form are ignored.
The relative zero frequencies here may also reflect differences in formality.
The integration is only over the opaque frequencies, ?
A second objection concerns the status of the reported frequencies.
A similar thing could be said for frequencies of valence patterns and the like.
Global sound resonance occurs at multiple frequencies (fundamental and overtones) depending on sound speed (cortico-cortical axons propagation speed) and hall size and shape.
The global theory suggests a tendency for dynamic behavior to exhibit temporal frequencies above the fundamental mode with progressively higher spatial frequencies.
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Collocations withfrequency

frequency

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allele frequency
This is an artefact due to the particular combination of allelefrequency distribution and error model adopted in the simulations.
clock frequency
The machine can, equivalently, be simulated on another concrete machine with identical clock frequency, at the expense of slower performances.
cut-off frequency
Since the plasma has a density gradient along the waveguide width, the cut-offfrequency will vary along the width.
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