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prewhitened

prewhitened is the simple past and past participle of prewhiten.

Meaning of prewhiten

Verb

prewhiten (third-person singular simple present prewhitens, present participle prewhitening, simple past and past participle prewhitened)

  1. (transitive) To modify (a data set) to make the samples statistically independent, analogous to white noise.

Questions about prewhitened

What is prewhitened the simple past and past participle of?
Prewhitened is the simple past and past participle of prewhiten.

Words near prewhitened in the dictionary

  1. prewhip
  2. prewhipped
  3. prewhipping
  4. prewhips
  5. prewhiten
  6. prewhitened
  7. prewhitening
  8. prewhitens
  9. prewillingness
  10. prewind
  11. prewinding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prewhitened (page history and authors); prewhiten (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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