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adds in quadrature

adds in quadrature is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 adds in quadrature

What is adds in quadrature the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Adds in quadrature is the third-person singular simple present indicative of add in quadrature.

Words near adds in quadrature in the dictionary

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

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