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2 definitions found 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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