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Amplitude |
Measure of the amount of energy in a sound wave; power of a signal; sound level |
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Analog to Digital Converter |
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Compression |
Pushing together of air molecules closest to the sound source |
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Cycle |
Interval of time in which a repeated pattern is completed |
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Frequency |
Number of cycles (oscillations) per second; times per second that a wave pushes on the ear drum. It relates to the pitch of a sound |
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kilohertz |
1,000 cycles per second |
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pulse code modulation |
used in music play back for CD's and also used in DVD for data storing whose sampling rate is bit higher |
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sampling rate |
refers to the number of times per second that a sound is measured sampling rate is expressed in hertz |
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waveform |
the visual depiction of sound as seen on the screen of the workstation the shape of the wave |
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wavelength |
distance from one point of a waveform to the next at precisely the same phase; horizontal length of one cycle of the wave |
