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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
broadband
noun
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▪ If you're fortunate enough to live somewhere where broadband is available and reasonably priced, you should definitely check it out.
▪ It will also provide opportunities for the exploitation of the emerging broadband technology.
▪ The Celestri global broadband communications network is expected to be operational by the year 2003.
▪ These providers depend on coaxial cable as transport roads and will help determine which broadband applications and services the viewing public prefers.
▪ We are not immediately concerned whether they are based on off-line, optical discs or on online technology by way of broadband networks.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
broadband

type of high-speed Internet access widely available from 2006, from broad (adj.) + band (n.1).

Wiktionary
broadband

a. (context telecommunications English) Of, pertaining to, or carrying a wide band of electromagnetic frequency n. 1 (context telecommunications English) A wide band of electromagnetic frequencies 2 (context Internet English) An internet connection provisioned over an existing service using alternate signal frequencies such as ADSL or cable modem.

WordNet
broadband
  1. adj. of or relating to or being a communications network in which the bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals (as for voice or data or video)

  2. responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies; "a broadband antenna" [syn: wideband]

Wikipedia
Broadband

In telecommunications, broadband is a wide bandwidth data transmission with an ability to simultaneously transport multiple signals and traffic types. The medium can be coaxial cable, optical fiber, radio or twisted pair.

In the context of Internet access, broadband is used to mean any high-speed Internet access that is always on and faster than traditional dial-up access.

Usage examples of "broadband".

USS billfish As Billfish levelled out at 546 feet the broadband sonar trace on the video repeater winked out.

There were no sonar detects on the OMEGA on broadband, and none on any of the guessed narrowband frequency gates they were searching in.

The ambiguity must be resolved by turning the ship and seeing which new two directions the tonal seems to be coming from, or correlating a narrowband towed array bearing to a broadband bearing.

SOUND SIGNATURE The collection of characteristic sounds, both broadband and narrowband tonals, that uniquely identify a class of ship, and sometimes, the exact ship itself.

It watched the narrowband and broadband sonar arrays that reached out to the infinite reaches of the sea to hear the noises of man-made machinery.

He exhaled and glanced at the sonar display on the command console, flipping screens from the broadband to the narrowband processors to the acoustic daylight imaging.

With narrowband taking too long to be useful, a gallop and-walk could only use the broadband sonar, and in truth, a few minutes of reduced ambient and own-ship noise would be a beneficial thing for the broadband sonar.

Zhou selected his left screen to the broadband display, the central screen to the narrowband frequency buckets, even though five minutes was not enough to integrate narrowband on one sector, they might get lucky.

Officer, Sonar, no correlation on that bearing to broadband contact or narrowband bucket.

Sonar, narrowband sonar contact Sierra nine six now bears one seven eight and correlates to broadband trace on that same bearing, turn count is pending but screw is seven bladed.

And one of our broadbands that switches their trans-Atlantic TV traffic.

As processors grow speedier, storage larger, applications multi-featured, broadband access all-pervasive, and the Internet goes wireless - individuals are increasingly able to emulate much larger scale organizations successfully.

Other technological solutions - such as DSL, ADSL, and the more promising satellite broadband - are being developed and implemented, albeit slowly and inefficiently.

The highest item on Chicago's periscope was a miniature antenna array which fed signals to a broadband receiver.

Then she flies off in so many directions at once that she nearly browns out the household broadband.