| 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. |