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Definition of low-bandwidth

low-bandwidth

adjective

  • a session of communication that has little information relative to its time-length.
    All of his e-mails are so low-bandwidth that I've stopped reading them.

    Last edited on Nov 11 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

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