"prewhiten" meaning in All languages combined

See prewhiten on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: prewhitens [present, singular, third-person], prewhitening [participle, present], prewhitened [participle, past], prewhitened [past]
Etymology: From pre- + whiten. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|pre|whiten}} pre- + whiten Head templates: {{en-verb}} prewhiten (third-person singular simple present prewhitens, present participle prewhitening, simple past and past participle prewhitened)
  1. (signal processing, transitive) To modify (a data set) to make the samples statistically independent, analogous to white noise. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Signal processing

Inflected forms

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