compandv.
/kəmˈpand/, U.S. /kəmˈpænd/ Telecommunications and Electronics.
transitive. To subject (a signal) to the action of a compander, typically in order to facilitate the transmission of a larger dynamic range for a given bandwidth.
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1961 Jrnl. Math. Anal. & Applic. 2 98 To compand f(t) is to transform it into φ[f(t)] where φ(x) is a monotonic function.
1988 Internat. Broadcasting 11 16/2 The largest sample in the block then determines the amount by which the block will be companded.
2008 T. Jiang et al. in Y. Zhang et al. Broadband Mobile Multimedia xv. 519 Nonlinear companding transforms compand the original OFDM signals using the strict monotone increasing function.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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