Digital Signal Processing Vocabulary
(Steven W. Smith, 1999)
Term Definition Translation
ADC analog-to-digital converter, a system analoog-
that converts an analog signal, such as digitaalmuund
a sound picked up by a microphone or ur
light entering a digital camera, into a
digital signal
algorithm a self-contained step-by-step set of algoritm
operations to be performed
antinoise a technique for neutralizing unwanted antimüra
sound, in which a second sound wave,
identical to but out of phase with the
unwanted sound, is used to cancel the
unwanted sound
artificial reverberation generated by electrical or tehislik
reverberation acoustical means to simulate that of järelkõla
natural rooms, added to a signal to
make it sound more lifelike