Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

savitzky-golay filter

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sav-itzky--go-lay -fil-ter
IPA

45

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

7

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A digital filter that can be applied to a set of digital data points for the purpose of smoothing the data.

Etymology

Named after Abraham Savitzky and Marcel J. E. Golay, who popularized the existing method and published tables of coefficients in 1964.

Inflected Forms

Savitzky-Golay filters (plural)

Questions

What does savitzky-golay filter mean?: A digital filter that can be applied to a set of digital data points for the purpose of smoothing the data.
Where does savitzky-golay filter come from?: Named after Abraham Savitzky and Marcel J. E. Golay, who popularized the existing method and published tables of coefficients in 1964.

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