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Rician

/ɹaɪsiːən/

Rician adjective: relating to Stephen O. Rice, American electrical and telecommunications engineer.

Adjective

Rician (not comparable)

  1. Relating to Stephen O. Rice, American electrical and telecommunications engineer.
    1. Relating to and especially following the Rician distribution.
      • Unlike previously proposed methods for MRI estimation based on wavelet coefficient soft thresholding and related thresholding methods, the new approach in this paper explicitly accounts for the Rician nature of the data.1999 October, Robert D. Nowak, “Wavelet-Based Rician Noise Removal for Magnetic Resonance Imaging”, in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, volume 8, number 10

Forms of Rician

alternative uncommonRicean

Origin of Rician

From Rice + -ian.

Words formed from Rician

Questions about Rician

What does Rician mean?
Rician means relating to Stephen O. Rice, American electrical and telecommunications engineer.
What part of speech is Rician?
Rician is an adjective.
How do you pronounce Rician?
Rician is pronounced /ɹaɪsiːən/.

Words near Rician in the dictionary

  1. richweeds
  2. Richwine
  3. Richwines
  4. Richwood
  5. Richy
  6. Rician
  7. Rician fading
  8. ricin
  9. ricine
  10. ricinelaidate
  11. ricinelaidates

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