deramp
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To remove (goods or containers) from a railroad flatcar using special equipment.
Transitive verb
verb
To use a deramp process in order to clean up an electronic signal.
noun
A process for cleaning up electronic signals such as radar, in which a received signal is mixed with a reference signal in order to highlight differences in frequencies.
Example Sentences
- "a phase deramping function"
- "In the deramp process, the principle of continuous radar with a linearly frequency-modulated wave is applied to a pulsed radar."
- "Deramp processing entails mixing (i.e., multiplying) the return signal with two sinusoidal carriers of frequency fc and then low-pass-filtering the two resulting signals."
- "The trick with full deramp processing is to mix the echo with a replica of the transmitted chirp signal rather than with a fixed frequency tone (figure 4)."
Etymology
From de- + ramp.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: de