spectrotemporal

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adjective

Being a function of both time and frequency or wavelength

Scrabble 23

Meanings

adjectivespectrotemporal (not comparable)

alternative spectro-temporal

  1. not comparablenatural sciencesBeing a function of both time and frequency or wavelength

    The microphone signal was fed to a custom-made, real-time song recognizer that detected the first stereotypic syllable of song motifs using a two-layer neural network trained on spectrotemporal song data.

    2008 November 12, Georg B. Keller, Richard H. R. Hahnloser, “Neural processing of auditory feedback during vocal practice in a songbird”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7226, →DOI

Origin

  1. Latinspeciō
  2. Latinspectrum
  3. Englishspectrum
  4. Englishspectro-
  5. Englishtemporal
  6. Englishspectrotemporal

From spectro- + temporal.

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APA

spectrotemporal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spectrotemporal

MLA

“spectrotemporal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spectrotemporal. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spectrotemporal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spectrotemporal.

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