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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?- A-to-D converter Device that receives analog sound waveforms as an ...
- A/D Converter See A-to-D converter
- Access file See Derivative file
- Accuracy The degree to which the information correctly desc ...
- Achromatic Light perceived as having no hue, this includes th ...
- Acutance An objective SFR-derived metric weighted by the Co ...
- Adaptive thresholding See Thresholding, adaptive
- ADF See Automatic Document Feeder
- ADF scanner See Sheetfed scanner
- Administrative metadata See Metadata, administrative
- Adobe RGB Adobe RGB is a Red-Green-Blue color space develope ...
- AIIM The Association for Information and Image Manageme ...
- Aimpoint A specific value assigned to a given metric to ass ...
- Aliasing A sampling effect that leads to spatial frequencie ...
- ALTO An acronym for Analyzed Layout and Text Object, AL ...
- Ambient light Light existing in the environment that is not prod ...
- American Society for Quality See ASQ
- Analyzed Layout and Text Object See ALTO
- Angstrom Represented by the symbol "Å," the angs ...
- ANSI The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) i ...
- Archival master file File that represents the best copy produced by a d ...
- Array Any orderly arrangement of individual sensor eleme ...
- Artifact (defect) General term to describe a broad range of undesira ...
- Artifactual value See Informational and artifactual value
- Aspect ratio The relationship between the horizontal and vertic ...
- ASQ The American Society for Quality (ASQ) was formed ...
- Association for Information and Image Management See AIIM
- Automatic Document Feed Scanner See Sheetfed scanner
- Automatic Document Feeder An attachment that can be added to many flatbed sc ...
See also Linear Pulse Code Modulation
See also Precision
See also Distortion; Noise; Pixellation
See also Production master file; Derivative file
See also Bayer color filter array; Color filter array
See also Distortion; Compression, lossy; Noise; Moiré pattern
See also Sheetfed scanner