adds in quadrature

A form of add in quadrature — To combine the magnitude of two uncorrelated signals, usually noise or errors, by taking the square root of the sum of the squares.

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Meanings

verb
  1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of add in quadrature
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