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autocorrelator

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
au-to-cor-re-la-tor
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
6
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A device that modifies a signal with a delayed copy of itself in order to detect any periodic signal hidden in the noise

noun

A device that uses interferometry to detect autocorrelation of optical beams

Etymology

From auto- + correlator.

Inflected Forms

autocorrelators (plural)

Questions

What does autocorrelator mean?
A device that modifies a signal with a delayed copy of itself in order to detect any periodic signal hidden in the noise
Where does autocorrelator come from?
From auto- + correlator.

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