random noise
Electronics and Telecommunications
noun
Unwanted electrical signals caused by randomly occurring transient disturbances, sometimes affecting sound or video output; specifically a signal component whose instantaneous amplitudes follow a statistically random or Gaussian distribution.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.
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- be long
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