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sequency

sequency noun: half the number of zero crossings in the time base of a Walsh function.

Noun

sequency (plural sequencies)

  1. Half the number of zero crossings in the time base of a Walsh function.
    • The execution of a sequence may involve some or all of the three stages; if only amplitude gain is to be corrected and not sequency and target specification, then correction can be rapid enough to change an arpeggio-like run in “mid flight.”2014, R. A.M. Gregson, Time Series in Psychology, →ISBN
    • From this, we see that frequency can be regarded as a special measure of sequency applicable to sinusoidal waveforms only.2014 -, Anish Deb, Suchismita Ghosh, Power Electronic Systems, →ISBN, page 16
  2. A pattern or order of sequential items in a series.
    • If a metal causes cancer by direct “genetic mechanisms” involving mutations in the primary sequency of DNA, it must be able to distribute directly to the nucleus and remain there to make contact with DNA.2008 -, Max Costa, Metal Carcinogenesis Testing: Principles and In Vitro Methods, page 59
    • These conjectures appeared because they searched among the current existing mitochondrial DNA for common sequencies.2013, Paulo Murilo C. de Oliveira, Dietrich Stauffer, Evolution, Money, War, and Computers, →ISBN

Examples of sequency in a sentence

  • Spatial domain processing methods include all three types, but frequency domain operations, by nature of the frequency (and sequency) transforms, are global operations.2016, Scott E Umbaugh, Digital Image Processing and Analysis, →ISBN:
  • Walsh functions with different sequencies are orthogonal, and cal and sal functions of the same sequency are orthogonal but differ only by a time offset.2017, A. Richard Thompson, James M. Moran, George W. Swenson Jr., Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy, →ISBN, page 293:

Forms of sequency

pluralsequencies

Questions about sequency

What does sequency mean?
Sequency means half the number of zero crossings in the time base of a Walsh function.
How do you use sequency in a sentence?
Spatial domain processing methods include all three types, but frequency domain operations, by nature of the frequency (and sequency) transforms, are global operations.
What part of speech is sequency?
Sequency is a noun.
What is the plural of sequency?
The plural of sequency is sequencies.

Words near sequency in the dictionary

  1. sequences
  2. sequencibility
  3. sequencies
  4. sequencing
  5. sequencings
  6. sequency
  7. sequent
  8. sequent calculi
  9. sequent calculus
  10. sequential
  11. sequential analysis

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