Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Frequency.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A crowd; a throng; a concourse; an assembly.
  • noun Same as frequency.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Archaic. A crowd; a throng; a concourse.
  • noun rare Frequency; abundance.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A crowd or throng; a concourse.
  • noun obsolete frequency; abundance

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the number of occurrences within a given time period

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, multitude, from Old French, from Latin frequentia; see frequency.]

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See frequency.

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Examples

  • I am not that could in hardware and all such stuff, but I believe we had some kind of frequence problem; -)

    Raible Designs 2008

  • We do not have adequate evidence to suggest that global warming can lead to an increase or decrease in terms of intensity or frequence of el Nino or la Nina situations, he said.

    Flooding in Australia Result of La Nina 2011

  • If we are to assume Stickam.com is at fault, we should also consider AOL.com at fault — which this occurs with far more frequence.

    Three Sex Crime Arrests Among Stickam.com Users So Far This Year - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • And we get this great news from the AP, who we know have given John McCain so many passes in the past, he now has 1 million frequence miles all thanks to the AP.

    McCain's Doctors, Medical Records Say He Is In Good Health 2009

  • The work blitz is over and you can expect posts to appear with much more frequence now.

    Over a Week Matt Johnston 2006

  • The work blitz is over and you can expect posts to appear with much more frequence now.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Matt Johnston 2006

  • I also create tags for each comment and cocomment creates a tag cloud (a paragraph of words with the larger words being more frequent in my comments and the smaller ones with less frequence) which makes it easy for me to go back to all of my comments on a certain topic (All of my DOPA comments, for example.)

    Archive 2006-08-01 2006

  • On a long elevator ride, sway side to side at the normal frequence of the elevator.

    elevator 2002

  • What had seemed to be isolated incidents of brigandage began to look like more than that Lone wagons, no matter the number of Knights, were raided with increasing frequence and efficiency, and survivors reported that they were struck by growing bands of elves who fought by no rules any Knight or soldier knew, who seemed to reinvent their tactics daily.

    The Lioness Berberick, Nancy Varian 2002

  • In this way it was possible to approach, even if not to give conclusively, the answer to the difficult question of the possibility or frequence of transmission of bovine tuberculosis to humans.

    Physiology or Medicine 1905 - Presentation Speech 1967

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