channel capacity

1. 1.

   the maximum data rate that can be attained over a given channel

   Broaderdata rate

Questions about channel capacity

What does channel capacity mean?

channel capacity means "the maximum data rate that can be attained over a given channel".

Is channel capacity a common word?

channel capacity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.