BACKGROUND SIGNAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does background signal mean? 

• BACKGROUND SIGNAL (noun)
  The noun BACKGROUND SIGNAL has 1 sense:

1. extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured

  Familiarity information: BACKGROUND SIGNAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BACKGROUND SIGNAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

background; background signal

Context example:

they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals

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)