FREQUENCY BAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does frequency band mean? 

• FREQUENCY BAND (noun)
  The noun FREQUENCY BAND has 1 sense:

1. a band of adjacent radio frequencies (e.g., assigned for transmitting radio or television signals)

  Familiarity information: FREQUENCY BAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FREQUENCY BAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A band of adjacent radio frequencies (e.g., assigned for transmitting radio or television signals)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

frequency band; waveband

Hypernyms ("frequency band" is a kind of...):

band (a range of frequencies between two limits)

Domain category:

telecasting; television; TV; video (broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects)

 Context examples 

Breakthrough Listen used instruments at the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to observe that location over 5 hours on Saturday, detecting 15 bursts over the entire 4 to 8 GHz frequency band.

(Mysterious Radio Signals Detected from Deep Space, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)