Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

predistortion

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pre-dis-tor-tion
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Distortion prior to some other process.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"One form of predistortion and complementary equalization is the transmitter preemphasis and receiver deemphasis combination employed in FM transmissions."
"The convergence of the iterative approach, and the predistortion results are illustrated on a simulation of a Motorola LDMOS transistor based power amplifier and a measurement example using the Chalmers RF WebLab measurement setup."

Etymology

From pre- + distortion.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: pre

Usage

Inflected Forms

predistortions (plural) pre-distortion (alternative)

Phrases

digital predistortion

Questions

What does predistortion mean?: Distortion prior to some other process.
Where does predistortion come from?: From pre- + distortion.

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