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This glossary has been generated to serve the participating agencies as a standardized vocabulary for their deliberations and guidelines. The definitions are largely based on those in common use in the field. The glossary is a work in progress, and will be updated and expanded frequently. Suggestions are welcome.
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Suggestions?- Nanometer Most common measurement of distance for the wavele ...
- National Information Standards Organization See NISO
- Neutral color See Achromatic
- Neutral test card See Gray card
- Newtons rings An interference pattern that appears as a series o ...
- NISO Founded in 1939, the National Information Standard ...
- Noise Data that obscures or corrupts signal, as that ter ...
- Noise Power Spectrum Abbreviated as NPS, this is an engineering and sci ...
- Noise, digital audio Noise has a number of meanings in terms of sound. ...
- Noise, root-mean-square (RMS) Summary measure of radiometric distortion calculat ...
- Noise, white Any stochastic realization whose spatial frequency ...
- NPS See Noise Power Spectrum
- Nyquist frequency The highest possible frequency that can be coded a ...
- Nyquist principle Nyquist principle states that the sampling rate mu ...
See also Aliasing; Artifact (defect); Dither; Distortion; Signal to noise ratio
See also Aliasing; Artifact (defect); Dither; Distortion; Noise; Signal to noise ratio