NONLINEAR DISTORTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nonlinear distortion mean? 

• NONLINEAR DISTORTION (noun)
  The noun NONLINEAR DISTORTION has 1 sense:

1. distortion that occurs when the output signal does not have a linear relation to the input signal

  Familiarity information: NONLINEAR DISTORTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NONLINEAR DISTORTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Distortion that occurs when the output signal does not have a linear relation to the input signal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

amplitude distortion; nonlinear distortion

Hypernyms ("nonlinear distortion" is a kind of...):

distortion (a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal))