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pre-distortion

pre-distortion is the alternative form of predistortion.

Meaning of predistortion

Noun

predistortion (countable and uncountable, plural predistortions)

  1. Distortion prior to some other process.
    • One form of predistortion and complementary equalization is the transmitter preemphasis and receiver deemphasis combination employed in FM transmissions.1977, W[illiam] David Gregg, “Modulation Indices in PM and FM”, in Analog and Digital Communication: Concepts, Systems, Applications, and Services in Electrical Dissemination of Aural, Visual, and...

Forms of pre-distortion

pluralpre-distortions

Phrases with pre-distortion

Questions about pre-distortion

What is pre-distortion the alternative form of?
Pre-distortion is the alternative form of predistortion.

Words near pre-distortion in the dictionary

  1. pre-digest
  2. pre-disco
  3. pre-disease
  4. pre-diseases
  5. pre-distillation
  6. pre-distortion
  7. pre-distortions
  8. pre-distressed
  9. pre-drank
  10. pre-dreadnought
  11. pre-dreadnoughts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-distortion (page history and authors); predistortion (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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