nounplural noun frequencies

• 1mass noun The rate at which something occurs over a particular period of time or in a given sample.

  ‘an increase in the frequency of accidents due to increased overtime’

  More example sentences

  • ‘shops have closed with increasing frequency during the period’
  • ‘Over time, symptomatic periods may increase in frequency and severity.’
  • ‘Poch and Mannering found that the presence of a sight-distance restriction was found to significantly increase accident frequency.’
  • ‘Rest periods and frequency should be the same as those for increasing muscular strength.’
  • ‘The next goal is to increase frequency, particularly at peak periods.’
  • ‘In fact in the first four weeks of December road traffic offences generally increased in frequency.’
  • ‘Many scientists believe that the recent increase in hurricane frequency and intensity is due to global warming, which has raised sea temperatures.’
  • ‘An allele that provides better immunity against parasites will increase in frequency within a population.’
  • ‘Therefore, these mutations would not increase in frequency in the population.’
  • ‘As they moved, droplets of rain began to strike with ever increasing frequency.’
  • ‘Be even more wary if you are given a treatment plan that recommends daily visits that are gradually reduced in frequency over a period of several months.’
  • ‘They recorded whether patients ever committed physical attacks during the observation period, but frequency and severity of violence were not recorded.’
  • ‘Alcohol may trigger attacks during the period headaches occur, so avoidance of all alcohol during these periods will reduce headache frequency.’
  • ‘Service south of Franklin will run at reduced frequency during that six-hour period.’
  • ‘Headaches are common during childhood and become more common and increase in frequency during adolescence.’
  • ‘Now, scoring regularly for Wimbledon and playing with increasing frequency for Ireland, he may fulfil the potential he showed as a teenager.’
  • ‘The frequency of landslides has increased in recent years with major slides occurring in 1993, 1995 and 2002.’
  • ‘These days they meet with increasing frequency.’
  • ‘Those attacks may increase, both in frequency and intensity.’
  • ‘The floods which have devastated York with increasing frequency in recent years have traditionally been blamed on the rain - too much falling, too often.’
  • ‘The forecast is optimistic because of the expansion of the company's operations, increasing the flight frequency and the launch of new routes.’

  1. 1.1The fact or state of being frequent or happening often.
     ‘Although such things do happen with too great frequency, cases of ‘benign neglect’ are far more common.’
     More example sentences

     • ‘The fact that it happened with apparent frequency seems like an important detail on many levels.’
     • ‘That happens with great frequency in the system.’
     • ‘I took a few courses on statistics and understand how these things can happen, though they seemed to happen with such frequency that it seemed uncanny.’
     • ‘I was sitting around dwelling on how sad it is when it occurred to me that these small plane crashes happen with numbing frequency.’
     • ‘Yet it happens with terrible frequency, even thought it is a total ‘no no’.’
     • ‘These things seem to happen with alarming frequency these days.’
     • ‘Secondly, and this happens with remarkable frequency, notwithstanding all the technology at his disposal, the video referee can get it wrong!’
     • ‘I wish I could say that this was an isolated occurrence, but it seems to happen with distressing frequency.’
     • ‘It is interesting to ask, ‘why are these attacks happening with such frequency now?’’
     • ‘They wouldn't be miracles if they happened with reliable frequency.’
     • ‘It happened with such frequency that the assistant referee seemed to get confused and gave some close decisions against Bafana.’
     • ‘As most people are aware, this happens with almost reliable frequency in Namibia.’
     • ‘But this has happened with enough frequency to blow away my disbelief.’
     • ‘Kids getting born covered in hair happens with some frequency, but they tend to shed it off pretty soon.’
     • ‘There are incidents where water supply may be affected for half an hour to an hour, but that is negligible as such incidents are of less frequency.’
     • ‘Now they're trying to work out something where it won't happen with any kind of frequency.’
     • ‘Only 52 per cent actually test their contingency plans with any frequency.’
     • ‘Laws changed with bewildering frequency, creating temporary advantages for people quick enough to spot them and draining wealth from the slow or unlucky.’
     • ‘Financial crises occur with frightening frequency.’
     Synonyms

     rate of occurrence, commonness, frequentness, prevalence, incidence, amount

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• 2

  (also f, ν)

  The rate per second of a vibration constituting a wave, either in a material (as in sound waves), or in an electromagnetic field (as in radio waves and light)

  ‘different thicknesses of glass will absorb different frequencies of sound’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The answer, Zuckerwar explains, is that each one generates silent infrasound - long sound waves at a frequency below 20 hertz.’
  • ‘The Doppler effect is a change in the frequency of sound waves caused by moving objects.’
  • ‘Newton concluded that these forms of light vibrate at different frequencies.’
  • ‘We hear different sounds because of variations in the sound wave frequency.’
  • ‘Crucially, this also changes the frequency of the radio waves needed to flip the nucleus.’
  • ‘We know that electrons in any molecule can only absorb radiation at certain frequencies.’
  • ‘Whether this interference delays or advances the phase of the waves depends on the properties of the atom and the frequency of the wave.’
  • ‘This can be induced by a microwave field with a frequency that corresponds to the transition between the two lowest atomic states.’
  • ‘That is, an infrared spectrum is a plot of the intensity of light absorbed as a function of the frequency of vibration.’
  • ‘The frequency of this vibration is a function of the cut and shape of the crystal.’
  • ‘The electromagnetic spectrum describes all matter as wave frequencies.’
  • ‘A trifield meter measures the electromagnetic frequency in the space around it.’
  • ‘When the radio-wave frequency causing proton excitation is removed, the protons relax and return to their steady-state orientation.’
  • ‘Thus de Broglie supposed that matter might also be related to the frequency of waves.’
  • ‘Now, physicists in England have demonstrated a topsy-turvy Doppler shift in which a radio wave's frequency rises as the source recedes.’
  • ‘The frequency of gamma rays is far too high and that of radio waves is far too low to interact with these kinds of vibrations.’
  • ‘The frequency of light emitted from atoms in an excited state is measured in emission spectroscopy.’
  • ‘Because laser light is made up of identical waves of the same frequency, it can travel long distances without scattering.’
  • ‘Thus, in order to calculate the vibrational frequencies and the rotational constants of a molecule all that is is needed is the input.’
  • ‘If ten waves are made per second, then the frequency is said to be ten cycles per second, written as 10 cps.’

  1. 2.1The particular waveband at which radio signals are broadcast or transmitted.
     ‘a radio station on a single AM radio frequency’
     More example sentences

     • ‘a coding sequence to ensure that everyone changes frequency in the correct manner’
     • ‘Suppose an FM radio station is assigned the broadcast frequency 100 MHz.’
     • ‘In short, it plugs into a headphones jack and transmits the signal over an FM frequency you choose.’
     • ‘Finally, he tuned his suit's radio to the frequency listed on the cover of the transmitter.’
     • ‘Prior to the establishment of the FCC, anybody with an antenna could send a radio signal on any frequency.’
     • ‘This is due in part to the fact that VOA is broadcast only on short-wave frequencies.’
     • ‘Pulses represent any celestial radio signal of a fixed frequency that is distinguishable above the background noise.’
     • ‘In addition, Moore said, several group leaders were communicating by radio on a frequency the LAPD could monitor.’
     • ‘He turned around and adjusted the frequency on his portable radio.’
     • ‘One radio was tuned to the tanker-control frequency and the other radio directly to the tanker.’
     • ‘What started with two women has grown to a network of six women who keep at least two radios on the same frequency at night.’
     • ‘When you enter a road, you set your radio to the assigned frequency and monitor the traffic.’
     • ‘After 147 minutes, scientists detected a 20Hz shift in the frequency of the carrier signal, indicating, perhaps, that the probe had landed.’
     • ‘Transmitting on the frequency 100.9, the station devotes 60 per cent of its airtime to programmes in Tonga while the rest are in English.’
     • ‘A carrier signal is a continuous signal of a fixed frequency.’
     • ‘This is a measure of how well the antenna will ‘pull in’ a signal at a specific frequency.’
     • ‘New technology is allowing radio stations to offer digital and analog signals on the same frequency.’
     • ‘Or we can listen to them through radio transmission on a special frequency that's unique for each airport.’
     • ‘Radio waves have different frequencies, and by tuning a radio receiver to a specific frequency you can pick up a specific signal.’
     • ‘All FM radio stations transmit in a band of frequencies between 88 megahertz and 108 megahertz.’
     • ‘In full-duplex radio, the two transmitters use different frequencies, so both parties can talk at the same time.’