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BACKGROUND SIGNAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured
Example:
they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals
Synonyms:
background; background signal
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("background signal" is a kind of...):
disturbance; interference; noise (electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "background signal"):
background noise; ground noise (extraneous noise contaminating sound measurements that cannot be separated from the desired signal)
background radiation (radiation coming from sources other than those being observed)
