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salt-and-pepper noise

salt-and-pepper noise noun: a form of noise encountered in digital images, caused by defective light sensors at specific pixels, causing those pixels to appear fully black or fully white.

salt-and-pepper noise: a form of noise encountered in digital images, caused by defective light sensors at specific...
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Noun

salt-and-pepper noise (countable and uncountable, plural salt-and-pepper noises)

  1. A form of noise encountered in digital images, caused by defective light sensors at specific pixels, causing those pixels to appear fully black or fully white.

Forms of salt-and-pepper noise

pluralsalt-and-pepper noises

Origin of salt-and-pepper noise

From the appearance of the random white and black noisy pixels, as though salt and pepper grains had been spread across the image.

Questions about salt-and-pepper noise

What does salt-and-pepper noise mean?
Salt-and-pepper noise means a form of noise encountered in digital images, caused by defective light sensors at specific pixels, causing those pixels to appear fully black or fully white.
What part of speech is salt-and-pepper noise?
Salt-and-pepper noise is a noun.
What is the plural of salt-and-pepper noise?
The plural of salt-and-pepper noise is salt-and-pepper noises.

Words near salt-and-pepper noise in the dictionary

  1. salt wedges
  2. salt works
  3. Salt's dik-dik
  4. salt-and-pepper
  5. salt-and-pepper doris
  6. salt-and-pepper noise
  7. salt-box
  8. salt-boxes
  9. salt-cat
  10. salt-cellar
  11. salt-effect distillation

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