sequency

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noun

Half the number of zero crossings in the time base of a Walsh function.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

nounsequency (plural sequencies)

plural sequencies

  1. mathematicsHalf the number of zero crossings in the time base of a Walsh function.

    From this, we see that frequency can be regarded as a special measure of sequency applicable to sinusoidal waveforms only.

    2014 -, Anish Deb, Suchismita Ghosh, Power Electronic Systems, →ISBN, page 16
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    The execution of a sequence may involve some or all of the three stages; if only amplitude gain is to be corrected and not sequency and target specification, then correction can be rapid enough to change an arpeggio-like run in “mid flight.”

    2014, R. A.M. Gregson, Time Series in Psychology, →ISBN

    Spatial domain processing methods include all three types, but frequency domain operations, by nature of the frequency (and sequency) transforms, are global operations.

    2016, Scott E Umbaugh, Digital Image Processing and Analysis, →ISBN

    Walsh functions with different sequencies are orthogonal, and cal and sal functions of the same sequency are orthogonal but differ only by a time offset.

    2017, A. Richard Thompson, James M. Moran, George W. Swenson Jr., Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy, →ISBN, page 293
  2. A pattern or order of sequential items in a series.

    Amino acid sequency of ẞ chain

    2014, Eric D. Wills, Biochemical Basis of Medicine, →ISBN, page 515
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    If a metal causes cancer by direct “genetic mechanisms” involving mutations in the primary sequency of DNA, it must be able to distribute directly to the nucleus and remain there to make contact with DNA.

    2008 -, Max Costa, Metal Carcinogenesis Testing: Principles and In Vitro Methods, page 59

    These conjectures appeared because they searched among the current existing mitochondrial DNA for common sequencies.

    2013, Paulo Murilo C. de Oliveira, Dietrich Stauffer, Evolution, Money, War, and Computers, →ISBN
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