New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
White noise — is a random signal (or process) with a flat power spectral density. In other words, the signal contains equal power within a fixed bandwidth at any center frequency. White noise draws its name from white light in which the power spectral density… … Wikipedia
White Noise — steht für: Weißes Rauschen, ein Fachbegriff aus den Ingenieurwissenschaften und der Stochastik White Noise ist der Name von: White Noise (Band), eine Band der experimentellen elektronischen Musik White Noise (Roman), ein 1985 erschienener Roman… … Deutsch Wikipedia
White noise — White noise, n. a mixture or random noise sounds extending over the entire audible frequency spectrum with approximately equal intensity at all frequencies. It is used in certain experiments, as in psychology, to prevent subjects from hearing… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
white noise — White, random or background noise caused, in aircraft propulsion, by the reaction of each blade to the flow of air over its surface. The noise is from the eddy shedding in the blade’s wake, reacting back on the blade, and carrying random… … Aviation dictionary
white noise — n a heterogeneous mixture of sound waves extending over a wide frequency range that has been used to mask out unwanted noise interfering with sleep called also white sound … Medical dictionary
white noise — n [U] noise coming from a radio or television which is turned on but not ↑tuned to any programme … Dictionary of contemporary English
white noise — noun uncount the unpleasant noise made by a radio or television when it is not receiving the correct signal … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
white noise — white′ noise′ n. phs random noise with a uniform frequency spectrum over a wide range of frequencies • Etymology: 1965–70 … From formal English to slang
white noise — ► NOUN Physics ▪ noise containing many frequencies with equal intensities … English terms dictionary
white noise — n. [by analogy with WHITE LIGHT] a sound containing a blend of all the audible frequencies distributed equally over the range of the frequency band … English World dictionary
White Noise — White Noise, weißes Rauschen … Universal-Lexikon
