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 ;
see also brainwidth. 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.

