different between routine vs frequency

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French routine.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /?u??ti?n/

Noun

routine (countable and uncountable, plural routines)

1. A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
2. A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.

   Synonym: rut
3. A set piece of an entertainer's act.

4. (computing) A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine.

   Synonyms: function, procedure, subroutine

Derived terms

• routiner

Translations

Adjective

routine (comparative more routine, superlative most routine)

1. According to established procedure.
2. Regular; habitual.
3. Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.

Derived terms

• routinely

Translations

Anagrams

• in route, in utero, tue-iron

French

Etymology

From French route (“road, route”), and Old French -ine: a suffix for diminutive purpose

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u.tin/

Noun

routine f (plural routines)

1. routine (all senses)
2. (Louisiana, Cajun French, St.Mary Parish) road

Derived terms

• prendre sa routine à volonté

Descendants

Further reading

• “routine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• ouïrent

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French routine.

Noun

routine f (invariable)

1. routine
2. rut

Derived terms

• routinario

Anagrams

• rutenio, uterino

Further reading

• routine in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

English

Alternative forms

• frequence (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin frequentia, from frequens.

Pronunciation

• enPR: fr??kw?n-s?, IPA^(key): /?f?i?kw?nsi/

Noun

frequency (plural frequencies)

1. (uncountable or countable) The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period.
   • With growing confidence, the Viking’s raids increased in frequency.
   • The frequency of bus service has been improved from one every 15 to one every 12 minutes.
2. (uncountable) The property of occurring often rather than infrequently.
   • The FAQ addresses questions that come up with some frequency.
   • The frequency of the visits was what annoyed him.
3. (countable) The quotient of the number of times ${\displaystyle n}$ a periodic phenomenon occurs over the time ${\displaystyle t}$ in which it occurs: ${\displaystyle f=n/t}$.
   • The frequency of the musical note A above middle C is 440 oscillations per second.
   • The frequency of a wave is its velocity ${\displaystyle v}$ divided by its wavelength ${\displaystyle \lambda }$: ${\displaystyle f=v/\lambda }$.
   • Broadcasting live at a frequency of 98.3 megahertz, we’re your rock alternative!
   • The frequency for electric power in the Americas is generally 60 Hz rather than 50.
4. (statistics) number of times an event occurred in an experiment (absolute frequency)

Synonyms

• (rate of occurrence): oftenness; see also Thesaurus:commonness
• freq

Antonyms

• (rate of occurrence): period

Derived terms

• dual-frequency

Related terms

• frequent
• frequentative
• frequenter

Translations

See also

• cadence
• commonness
• occurrence
• periodicity

Further reading

• Frequency (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• frequency in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• frequency in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• frequency at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• quefrency