bandwidth n.
1. [common] Used by hackers (in a generalization of its
technical meaning) as the volume of information per unit time
that a computer, person, or transmission medium can handle.
"Those are amazing graphics, but I missed some of the detail --
not enough bandwidth, I guess." Compare low-bandwidth. This generalized usage
began to go mainstream after the Internet population explosion of
1993-1994. 2. Attention span. 3. On Usenet, a measure of network capacity that is
often wasted by people complaining about how items posted by
others are a waste of bandwidth.