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Form factor
The ratio of the RMS value to the absolute mean of a sinusoidal wave (especially to that of an alternating current)
📖 Definitions of "Form factor"
noun
- 1
The ratio of the RMS value to the absolute mean of a sinusoidal wave (especially to that of an alternating current)
- 2
Any of several functions that describe the unknown internal state of a particle
- 3
The emissivity of a material
- 4
A function that describes the scattering power of an atom as function of the scattering angle
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Form factor"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| formfactornoun | An industry standard that represents the size and shape of a circuit board. |
| power factornoun | (electricity, engineering) The ratio of the actual power to the apparent power in an alternating current power system; specifically, the cosine of the phase angle between the voltage and the current. |
| fluencenoun | (physics) A measure of particle flux (or that of a pulse of electromagnetic radiation) |
| space factornoun | (in an electromagnetic coil) The ratio of the volume occupied by the wire in the winding, or the iron in the core, to the total volume of the winding or the core |
| amplitudenoun | The measure of the size of something, especially its width or breadth; largeness, magnitude. |
| load factornoun | (transport) The percentage of a transportation system's maximum passenger capacity that is actually used. |
| waveformnoun | (physics, engineering) The shape of a physical wave, such as sound, electric current or electromagnetic radiation, or its representation obtained by plotting a characteristic of the phenomenon (such as voltage) versus another variable, often time. |
| semiamplitudenoun | (physics) The amplitude of a wave equal to half of that from peak to peak. |
| reflectancenoun | (physics) The ratio of the flux reflected to that incident on a surface. |
| fundamental | Essential; extremely important. |
| pulsatancenoun | (physics) angular frequency (in radians per second) |
| luminositynoun | (uncountable) the state of being luminous, or a luminous object; brilliance or radiance |
| phase factornoun | (quantum mechanics) A normalized complex number, considered as, say, the scalar coefficient of a ket. |
| phase anglenoun | (wave physics) Angular displacement of a sinusoid from a reference point or reference time. |
| harmonicnoun | (physics) A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency. |
| resonancenoun | (uncountable) The quality of being resonant. |
| amplitudeologynoun | (physics) A field of quantum physics, that studies scattering amplitudes of quantum particles, and applying mathematical periods to simplifying the summation of Feynman diagrams |
| angular frequencynoun | (physics, fluid dynamics) A scalar measure of rate of rotation |
| fractancenoun | (physics) fractional-order impedance (that has a constant phase angle) |
| dissipation factornoun | The value of energy loss rate of oscillation mode in a dissipative system. |
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