Etymology

multitaper

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Today it means: A technique to estimate the power spectrum of a stationary ergodic finite-variance random process, using several different data tapers which are orthogonal to each other. Full definition →

English taper ← Middle English multi- ← Latin multī
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  1. Proto-Italic*moltos
  2. Latinmultus
  3. Latinmultī
  4. Middle Englishmulti-
  5. Englishmulti-
  6. Englishtaper
  7. English todaymultitaper

From multi- + taper.

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