Meanings
- uncountableA signal or process with a frequency spectrum such that the spectral energy density is proportional to the reciprocal of the frequency (1/f).
It was Gilden, Thorton, and Mallon (1995) who first reported pink noise in response time variability during the fundamentally cognitive task of estimating fixed intervals of time.
2005, John G. Holden, Gauging the Fractal Dimension of Response Times from Cognitive TasksSynonyms: 1/f noise, flicker noise
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA signal or process with a frequency spectrum such that the spectral energy density is proportional to the reciprocal of the frequency (1/f).
Translations
Catalan soroll rosa
- soroll rosatype of signal
Finnish vaaleanpunainen kohina
- vaaleanpunainen kohinatype of signal
German rosa Rauschen
- rosa Rauschentype of signal
Portuguese ruído rosa
- ruído rosatype of signal
Romanian zgomot roz
- zgomot roztype of signal
Cite this entry
pink noise. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pink%20noise
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