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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Frequency \Fre"quen*cy\, n.; pl {Frequencies}. [L. frequentia
numerous attendance, multitude: cf F. fr['e]quence. See
{Frequent}.]
1. The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often
repeated; common occurence as the frequency of crimes;
the frequency of miracles.
The reasons that moved her to remove were because
Rome was a place of riot and luxury, her soul being
almost stifled with the frequencies of ladies'
visits. --Fuller.
2. A crowd; a throng. [Obs.] --B. Jonson
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
frequency
n 1: the number of occurrences within a given time period
(usually 1 second); "the frequency of modulation was 40
cycles per second" [syn: {frequence}, {oftenness}]
2: the ratio of the number of observations in a statistical
category to the total number of observations [syn: {relative
frequency}]
3: the number of observations in a given statistical category
[syn: {absolute frequency}]
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