frequencies

How often things occur

Frequencies is the plural of frequency, referring to rates of occurrence or repetition.

In physics, frequencies measure how often waves cycle per second: radio frequencies, sound frequencies.

In statistics, frequencies count how often values appear in a dataset.

More generally, frequencies describe how often events happen: the frequencies of various side effects.

sound

pitch

Frequency of sound

  • toneQuality of sound
  • hertzFrequency measurement unit
  • bassDeep pitch or fish

treble · octave · audible · ultrasonic · infrasonic · acoustic · harmonic · fundamental · overtone · note

vibration

oscillation

Repeated back-and-forth movement

periodic · damping · natural · modal · mechanical · waveform · displacement · transverse · longitudinal · node

radio

FM

Carrier wave frequency variation

broadcast · station · tuning · airwaves · ham · wireless · transmitter · receiver · antenna · dial

signal

carrier

One that transports

channel · baseband · sideband · sampling · digital · analog · transmission · encoding · filtering · cutoff

light

wavelength

Spatial repetition interval

ultraviolet · gamma · X-ray · photon · nanometer · electromagnetic · color · optical · emission · absorption

statistics

distribution

Allocation across recipients

tally · relative · absolute · cumulative · probability · data · bin · mode · expected · observed

Categories
Opposites
regularity/occurrence pattern

frequenciesirregularities

Deviations from expected patterns

anomalies · aberrations · flukes · random events · unpredictabilities

commonality/abundance

frequenciesrarities

Uncommon or scarce items

scarcities · uncommonness · absences · voids · dearths

signal characteristics (physics/radio)

frequenciessilence

Total lack of sound

noise · impulses · transients · static · white noise

Phrases
Family

frequent, frequency, frequently, infrequent, frequented, infrequently, frequenting, frequenter, infrequency

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