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on-beam

on-beam is the alternative form of onbeam.

Meaning of onbeam

Adjective

onbeam (not comparable)

  1. In line with excited parallel neurofibers.
    • Because of a:— counterbalancing relationship between onbeam excitation and inhibition at the Purkinje cell (Eccles et al., 1967) some manner of continually refurbished excitation from these extramuscular receptors must be postulated (Murphy, MacKay & Johnson, 1973)1975, Harold Thomas Anthony Whiting, Readings in human performance, page 131
  2. On a transmitted carrier wave.
    • The FSTAT detector performance is suboptimal in the presence of onbeam coherent noise or incoherent signals ...2007 December, Keith L. McLaughlin, Hans G. Israelsson, Benjamin C. Kohl, “Evaluation of a Time-Domain Adaptive Beamformer for Regional Phase Detection”, in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of...

Questions about on-beam

What is on-beam the alternative form of?
On-beam is the alternative form of onbeam.

Words near on-beam in the dictionary

  1. on-air
  2. on-and-off
  3. on-base percentage
  4. on-base percentages
  5. on-base plus slugging
  6. on-beam
  7. on-board
  8. on-brand
  9. on-call
  10. on-camera
  11. on-campus

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