Corporate-speak for time or mental capacity.
Mathis Turgeon-Roy, Mohammed Shakir, Zachary Louis-Seize, Raphael St-Gelais: Detectivity and bandwidth limits of cooled and uncooled light detection using nanomechanical resonators https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01674 htt…
Bandwidth may be characterized as network bandwidth, data bandwidth, or digital bandwidth.
Corporate-speak for time or mental capacity. "I don't have bandwidth" = "I'm not doing that." Beautifully vague — nobody has to admit overwork, bad prioritization, or that your request is the last thing they want to touch. Widely mocked precisely because it works.
"I'd love to help but I don't have bandwidth until next sprint."
bandwidth means Corporate-speak for time or mental capacity. It's mostly used in workplace and corporate conversation. It's casual and generally safe with friends and online. It's standard online vocabulary; nothing inherently concerning about hearing it.
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A quick gut-check on whether someone has the mental or emotional capacity to handle something right now. A bandwidth check is what you do before unloading a heavy conversation — a small act of consideration that says 'I see you as a whole person with limits, not just a listener.' In workplace slang it's also used literally to ask if someone can take on more work. Either way, it's the opposite of just dumping your problems or tasks on someone without a moment's notice.
Bandwidth energy is the vibe someone gives off when they're clearly stretched too thin — the slightly glazed eyes, the short replies, the way they say 'yeah totally' while obviously not processing what you just said. It's the ambient signal that this person is running at 99% capacity and any additional load might crash the system. You don't take it personally when someone has bandwidth energy; you just read the room and don't add to their stack.
Someone with mega bandwidth is operating at an almost superhuman level of mental and emotional capacity — they're managing three projects, maintaining their social life, going to the gym, and somehow still have space to help you process your situationship drama. It's both inspiring and slightly suspicious. Mega bandwidth energy is the person who always has time, always has answers, and never seems frazzled. Either they have incredible systems, incredible privilege, or they're hiding their breaking points very well.
Bandwidth is the difference between the upper and lower frequencies in a continuous band of frequencies.
bandwidth means Corporate-speak for time or mental capacity. It's mostly used in workplace and corporate conversation. It's casual and generally safe with friends and online. It's standard online vocabulary; nothing inherently concerning about hearing it.
"bandwidth" is slang. It means: Corporate-speak for time or mental capacity. Register: casual. Use it in: casual conversation and online posts. Avoid in: formal writing and professional emails.
“Mathis Turgeon-Roy, Mohammed Shakir, Zachary Louis-Seize, Raphael St-Gelais: Detectivity and bandwidth limits of cooled and uncooled light detection using nanomechanical resonators https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01674 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.01674 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.01674”
“Bandwidth may be characterized as network bandwidth, data bandwidth, or digital bandwidth.”
“Bandwidth is the difference between the upper and lower frequencies in a continuous band of frequencies.”
“In computing, bandwidth is the maximum rate of data transfer across a given path.”
“It may refer more specifically to two subcategories: Passband bandwidth is the difference between the upper and lower cutoff frequencies of, for example, a band-pass filter, a communication channel, or a signal spectrum.”
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The minimum, over all orderings of vertices of a given graph, of the length of the longest edge.
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The rate of data flow in digital networks typically measured in bits per second; the bitrate.
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The width of the smallest frequency band within which the signal can fit.
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The width, usually measured in hertz, of a frequency band.
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