Meanings
plural missubtractions
- An instance of missubtracting; incorrect subtraction.
By considering the missubtraction noise, recognition performance is significantly improved.
1994, ICASSP-94: 1994 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, page 602 more examples
If the increase in brightness is less than 10%, it is likely that the candidate is a missubtraction.
1992, Heidi Jo Marvin Newberg, Measuring Qo Using Supernovae at Z, page 58In carrying out such outlined procedure, however, it should be taken into account that a possible missubtraction of the intense elastic peak could considerably spoil the resulting […]
2002, A. Orecchini, A. Paciaroni, A. R. Bizzarri, and S. Cannistraro, “Dynamics of different hydrogen classes in β-lactoglobulin: a quasielastic neutron scattering investigation”, in The Journal of Physical Chemistry
Origin
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