broadband

UK/ˈbɹɔːdbænd/US/ˈbɹɔdbænd/

nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #11,804 of 15,258mostly written

Broadband is a fast connection that carries a great deal of data. Broadband speed, fibre broadband, no broadband here.

The name is technical in origin: broad band means a wide range of frequencies, as against the narrow band a dial-up modem used. What counts as broadband keeps rising, and the regulator's definition has been raised repeatedly.

Definitions of broadband

1nounbroadbandA fast connection that carries a great deal of data.C1
“We couldn't stream films at the cottage because it had no broadband.”

broadband is a connection.

Where it comes from

Broad plus band, from a wide band of frequencies, as against narrowband.

From broad + band.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

broadband in the wild

Wireless broadband is a telecommunications technology that provides high-speed wireless Internet access or computer networking access over a wide area.
Wireless broadband
The term encompasses both fixed and mobile broadband.
Wireless broadband
In telecommunications, broadband or high speed is the wide-bandwidth data transmission that uses signals at a wide spread of frequencies or several different simultaneous frequencies.
Broadband
By the first decade of the 21st century, many consumers in developed nations used faster broadband technology.
Internet access
By 2014, 41 percent of the world's population had access, broadband was almost ubiquitous worldwide, and global average connection speeds exceeded one megabit per second.
Internet access

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