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add in quadrature

add in quadrature verb: to combine the magnitude of two uncorrelated signals, usually noise or errors, by taking the square root of the sum of the squares.

add in quadrature: to combine the magnitude of two uncorrelated signals, usually noise or errors, by taking the square...
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Verb

add in quadrature (third-person singular simple present adds in quadrature, present participle adding in quadrature, simple past and past participle added in quadrature)

  1. To combine the magnitude of two uncorrelated signals, usually noise or errors, by taking the square root of the sum of the squares.
    • The derived expression for the g‐r noise consists of a thermal component and a background component which add in quadrature.1982, “Theory of generation‐recombination noise in intrinsic photoconductors”, in Journal of Applied Physics, volume 53, →DOI

Forms of add in quadrature

third-person singular presentadds in quadrature
present participleadding in quadrature
past participleadded in quadrature
pastadded in quadrature

Questions about add in quadrature

What does add in quadrature mean?
Add in quadrature means to combine the magnitude of two uncorrelated signals, usually noise or errors, by taking the square root of the sum of the squares.
What part of speech is add in quadrature?
Add in quadrature is a verb.
What is the past tense of add in quadrature?
The past tense of add in quadrature is added in quadrature.

Words near add in quadrature in the dictionary

  1. add
  2. add flame to the fire
  3. add fuel to fire
  4. add fuel to the fire
  5. add fuel to the flame
  6. add in quadrature
  7. add insult to injury
  8. add oil
  9. add on
  10. add one's twopenn'orth
  11. add ons

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