compandorn.
/kəmˈpandə/, U.S. /kəmˈpændər/ Telecommunications and Electronics.
= compander n.
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1934 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 13 321 The transmitting device is called the compressor; the receiving device, the expandor; and the complete system, the compandor.
1959 K. Henney Radio Engin. Handbk. (ed. 5) xxviii. 40 A circuit diagram of one type P carrier-system terminal is shown in fig. 35. It includes..a compandor for each channel which compresses the volume range of the speech after it passes the modulator.
2005 S. D. Ilčev Global Mobile Satellite Communications iii. 116 This disadvantage can be offset to a large extent by the use of compandors.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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