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Nyquist interval

communications
Also known as: sampling interval

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telecommunication systems

  • In Harry Nyquist

    The Nyquist sampling theorem showed that the sampling rate must be at least twice the highest frequency present in the sample in order to reconstruct the original signal. These two papers by Nyquist, along with one by R.V.L. Hartley, are cited in the first paragraph of…

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  • Block diagram of a digital telecommunications system.
    In telecommunication: Sampling

    …is referred to as the Nyquist interval (after the Swedish-born American electrical engineer Harry Nyquist). As an example of the Nyquist interval, in past telephone practice the bandwidth, commonly fixed at 3,000 hertz, was sampled at least every 1/6,000 second. In current practice 8,000 samples are taken per second, in…

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