Frequency

English Meaning

The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles.

1. The property or condition of occurring at frequent intervals.
2. Mathematics & Physics The number of times a specified periodic phenomenon occurs within a specified interval, as:
3. Mathematics & Physics The number of repetitions of a complete sequence of values of a periodic function per unit variation of an independent variable.
4. Mathematics & Physics The number of complete cycles of a periodic process occurring per unit time.
5. Mathematics & Physics The number of repetitions per unit time of a complete waveform, as of an electric current.
6. Statistics The number of measurements in an interval of a frequency distribution.
7. Statistics The ratio of the number of times an event occurs in a series of trials of a chance experiment to the number of trials of the experiment performed.