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Frequency N Pitch Sense Modulation Fri:Kwənsi N.频率 英

单词 frequency
音标 ['fri:kwənsi]
解释 n.频率
红宝书 【英】 n. 频率(rate of occurrence or repetition of sth)
【考】 frequency : pitch / wavelength : color(频率决定音高/波长 决定颜色)反义词:rarity(稀有 )
【例】 Fatal accidents have decreased in frequency over recent years.
字源 frequency (n.)
1640s, "fact of occurring often," from Latin frequentia "a crowding, crowd," from frequentem (see frequent).
Earlier it had been used in a now-obsolete sense of "state of being crowded" (mid-16c.); sense in physics, "rate of recurrence," especially of a vibration, is from 1831. In radio electronics, frequency modulation (1922, abbreviated F.M.) as a system of broadcasting is distinguished from amplitude modulation (or A.M.).
不择手段背单词 n. 频率(单位时间内某种完整波动的重复次数); 频繁性
【类】frequency: pitch = wavelength: color频率决定音高 = 波长决定颜色
【反】rarity(n 稀有)
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