OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 6092

noise

/nɔɪz/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
barullo • estrépito • ruido
Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
He knew that it was trash day, when the garbage collectors made all the noise.
The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion without noise to us perceived.
ruido
Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
ruido
Any part of a signal or data that reduces the clarity, precision, or quality of the desired output.
On the technical side, the scanning and OCR of texts, in combination with the graphic design of high school text books, introduced a certain level of noise into the corpus which in…
signal-to-noise ratio
ruido
The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within a supposedly identical population.
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