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e condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles. The reasons that moved her to remove were, because Rome was a place of riot and luxury, her soul being almost stifled with, the frequencies of ladies' visits. Fuller.…

not being frequented; solitude; isolation; retirement; seclusion. [R.] The solitude and infrequency of the place. Bp. Hall.

Infrequency.

To quote constantly or with great frequency.

Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; used up.

Commonness; frequency. [Obs.] Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community. Shak.

Frequency. [Obs.] Bailey.

an instrument for determining the frequency of electic wave oscillations, esp. in connection with wireless telegraphy.

ut out a player on the other side, or gives him an unearned base. Law of error, or Law of frequency of error (Mensuration), the law which expresses the relation between the magnitude of an error and the frequency with which that error will be committed in making a large number of careful measurements of a quantity. --…

cquired in two ways; either, first by noticing facts without any attempt to influence the frequency of their occurrence or to vary the circumstances under which they occur; this is observation; or, secondly, by putting in action causes or agents over which we have control, and purposely varying their combinations, and…

A region of the ocean where fogs are of marked frequency, as near the coast of Newfoundland.

Frequency; abundance. [R.] Bp. Hall.

The condition or quality of being general; frequency; commonness. Sir P. Sidney.

velopment from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth. Shak.

where R = ohmic resistance, X = reactance. For an inductive circuit, X = 2pfL, where f = frequency and L = self-inductance; for a circuit with capacity X = 1 ÷ 2pfC, where C = capacity.

To trouble greatly by numbers or by frequency of presence; to disturb; to annoy; to frequent and molest or harass; as, fleas infest dogs and cats; a sea infested with pirates. To poison vermin that infest his plants. Cowper. These, said the genius, are envy, avarice, superstition, love, with the like cares and passions…

A line connecting places on the earth's surface at which there is the same mean frequency of auroras.

o make, or tend to make (the motion of a moving body), uniform in rate of rotation, or in frequency of vibration.

To prove unreal or intrue; to disprove. The omission or infrequency of such recitals does not negative the existence of miracles. Paley.

Frequency. Hooker.