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bandwidth n.
1. [common] Used by hackers (in a
generalization of its technical meaning) as the volume of
information per unit time that a computer, person, or transmission
medium can handle. "Those are amazing graphics, but I missed some
of the detail -- not enough bandwidth, I guess." Compare
low-bandwidth. This generalized usage began to go mainstream
after the Internet population explosion of 1993-1994. 2. Attention
span. 3. On Usenet, a measure of network capacity that is
often wasted by people complaining about how items posted by others
are a waste of bandwidth.
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