Meanings
- not comparablebusiness(of a filter, circuit, or system) Rejecting or attenuating a specific range of frequencies while passing those above and below.
The bandreject or bandstop filter needs a capacitor and an inductor in parallel with each other on the circuit.
1997 September 4, John Scott, Clinton Van Zyl, Introduction to EMC, Elsevier Science, page 1202 more examples
From the “highpass-lowpass” filter, “bandpass-bandreject” filter, or the flat amplifier, the signal, after suitable amplification with adjustable gain, may be fed to a meter which gives the root mean square value of the voltage, …
1950, Machinery and Production Engineering, volume 77, number 2, Machinery Publishing Company, page 636The bandpass and bandreject filters are specified by two cutoff frequencies, a low cutoff and a high cutoff, as shown in Figures 5.4-1.
2022 December 30, Scott E Umbaugh, Digital Image Processing and Analysis: Digital Image Enhancement, Restoration and Compression, CRC Press, page 186Synonyms: bandstop
Synonyms & antonyms
adjective(of a filter, circuit, or system) Rejecting or attenuating a specific range of frequencies while passing those above and below.
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