channel capacity
/ˈtʃænəl kəˌpæsɪti/
the maximum rate at which information can be reliably transmitted
channel capacity in a sentence
“The channel capacity of human attention is surprisingly limited.”
Origin of channel capacity
Technical term from Shannon's 1948 paper
Related Words
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the fundamental unit of information; a binary choice
mutual information
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a measure of uncertainty or randomness in information; the average information content
redundancy
the use of more information than necessary; repetition that aids error correction
compression
reducing the size of data by eliminating redundancy
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converting information from one form to another for transmission or storage