bandwidth

/ˈbændwɪdθ/noun

How quickly data can travel through a digital connection, usually counted in bits per second.

Example sentences

“Streaming movies in high quality uses up a lot of bandwidth.”
“Our office upgraded its internet plan to get more bandwidth for video calls.”

The office-slang sense is now everywhere: "I don't have the bandwidth for this" means no spare time or mental capacity.

Related words

latencyThe delay between starting something and the moment it actually happens.terabyteA unit of digital information equal to a trillion bytes, or one thousand gigabytes.bufferingThe act of using a buffer, such as temporarily storing data before it is played or processed.gigabyteA unit of computer data equal to one billion bytes, or 1,000 megabytes.cacheA quick-access temporary store that keeps recently or often-used data so it does not have to be fetched again from a slower source.ethernetA wired system for connecting computers into a network, built on a widely used technical standard.