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fre·quen·cy

frequency

 
 
pronunciation:
fri kwn si
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part of speech: noun
inflections: frequencies
definition 1: the fact of happening often or being frequent.
They went to church with great frequency when she was a child.
definition 2: the rate of occurrence of something.
The frequency of these strange events is increasing.This computer program calculates the frequency of any word in a text.
definition 3: in physics, the number of electromagnetic waves that pass a certain point in a given time period.
Some radiation has a frequency that allows us to see it as color.
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