Meaning & use

bandwidth

noun·Academic

The capacity of a network to transmit data, or, informally, a person's available time and mental energy.

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Streaming several videos at once used up most of the household's internet bandwidth.

I don't have the bandwidth to take on another project until next month.

A note on using this word

Bandwidth's informal meaning of personal capacity for time or attention has become common in workplace speech, borrowed from its technical, computing sense.

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