Meanings
plural Hadamard transforms
- computingA generalized Fourier transform that performs an orthogonal, symmetric, involutive, linear operation on 2ᵐ real numbers (or complex numbers, although the Hadamard matrices themselves are purely real).
Synonyms: Walsh transform
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA generalized Fourier transform that performs an orthogonal, symmetric, involutive, linear operation on 2ᵐ real numbers (or complex numbers, although the Hadamard matrices themselves are purely real).
Origin
Named for the French mathematician Jacques Hadamard.
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