"filter bank" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: filter banks [plural], filterbank [alternative]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} filter bank (plural filter banks)
  1. (signal processing) An array of band-pass filters that separates the input signal into multiple components, each one carrying a single frequency subband of the original signal.

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