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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

add in quadrature en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To combine the magnitude of two uncorrelated signals, usually noise or errors, by taking the square root of the sum of the squares.
    • The derived expression for the g‐r noise consists of a thermal component and a background component which add in quadrature. 1982, “Theory of generation‐recombination noise in intrinsic photoconductors”, in Journal of Applied Physics, volume 53, →DOI:

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adding in quadrature Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
added in quadrature Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
added in quadrature Tense=Past lexicographic
adds in quadrature Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic