frequency

  1. Noun.  (uncountable) The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period.
  2. Noun.  (uncountable) The property of occurring often rather than infrequently.
  3. Noun.  (countable) The quotient of the number of times n a periodic phenomenon occurs over the time t in which it occurs: f = n / t.

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