"multitaper" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: multitapers [plural]
Etymology: multi- + taper Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|multi|taper}} multi- + taper Head templates: {{en-noun}} multitaper (plural multitapers)
  1. (signal processing) A technique to estimate the power spectrum of a stationary ergodic finite-variance random process, using several different data tapers which are orthogonal to each other. Categories (topical): Signal processing Related terms: multitapered

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