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frequency
The definition of frequency is how often something happens.
(noun)An example of frequency is a person blinking their eyes 47 times in one minute.
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See frequency in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun pl. frequencies
- Obsolete
- the condition of being crowded
- a crowd
- the fact of occurring often or repeatedly; frequent occurrence
- the number of times any action or occurrence is repeated in a given period
- Math., Statistics
- the number of times an event, value, or characteristic occurs in a given period
- the ratio of the number of times a characteristic occurs to the number of trials in which it can potentially occur
- Physics the number of periodic oscillations, vibrations, or waves per unit of time: usually expressed in hertz: abbrev. f
Origin: ME < Fr < L frequentia < frequens: see frequent
Also frequence
See frequency in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun pl. fre·quen·cies
- The property or condition of occurring at frequent intervals.
- Mathematics & Physics The number of times a specified periodic phenomenon occurs within a specified interval, as:a. The number of repetitions of a complete sequence of values of a periodic function per unit variation of an independent variable.b. The number of complete cycles of a periodic process occurring per unit time.c. The number of repetitions per unit time of a complete waveform, as of an electric current.
- Statistics a. The number of measurements in an interval of a frequency distribution.b. The ratio of the number of times an event occurs in a series of trials of a chance experiment to the number of trials of the experiment performed.
Origin:
Origin: Latin frequentia, multitude
Origin: , from frequēns, frequent-, crowded, numerous, frequent
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