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adding in quadrature

adding in quadrature is the present participle and gerund of add in quadrature.

Meaning of add in quadrature

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

Questions about adding in quadrature

What is adding in quadrature the present participle and gerund of?
Adding in quadrature is the present participle and gerund of add in quadrature.

Words near adding in quadrature in the dictionary

  1. adding
  2. adding flame to the fire
  3. adding fuel to fire
  4. adding fuel to the fire
  5. adding fuel to the flame
  6. adding in quadrature
  7. adding machine
  8. adding machines
  9. adding oil
  10. adding on
  11. adding one's twopenn'orth

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