bandreject

English

Etymology

From band +‎ reject.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbændɹɪˌdʒɛkt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛkt
  • Hyphenation: band‧re‧ject

Adjective

bandreject (not comparable)

  1. (electronics) (of a filter, circuit, or system) Rejecting or attenuating a specific range of frequencies while passing those above and below.
    • 1950, Machinery and Production Engineering, volume 77, number 2, Machinery Publishing Company, page 636:
      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, …
    • 1997 September 4, John Scott, Clinton Van Zyl, Introduction to EMC, Elsevier Science, page 120:
      The bandreject or bandstop filter needs a capacitor and an inductor in parallel with each other on the circuit.
    • 2022 December 30, Scott E Umbaugh, Digital Image Processing and Analysis: Digital Image Enhancement, Restoration and Compression, CRC Press, page 186:
      The bandpass and bandreject filters are specified by two cutoff frequencies, a low cutoff and a high cutoff, as shown in Figures 5.4-1.

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