Digital Signal Processing Vocabulary
concepts that apply to the field as a whole, and learning specialized
techniques for your particular area of interest. The first chapter of the
book describes the effects that DSP has made in several diverse fields.
(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