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prewhitening

prewhitening is the present participle and gerund 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 prewhitening

What is prewhitening the present participle and gerund of?
Prewhitening is the present participle and gerund of prewhiten.

Words near prewhitening in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prewhitening (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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