multipathadj.n.
/ˈmʌltɪpɑːθ/, /ˈmʌltɪpaθ/, U.S. /ˈməltiˌpæθ/; see also multi- comb. form. Telecommunications and Seismology.
Involving or relating to signals which arrive at a receiver having come from the same source by different routes. Also as n.: = multipathing n.
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ship-to-ship1904
two-way1922
ship-to-shore1923
multichannel1930
multipath1936
multi-channelled1950
store-and-forward1963
terrestrial1968
ISDN1974
1936 Proc. IRE 24 912 It is..extreme high order harmonic distortion which makes the reception of frequency modulation over a multipath medium far more distorted than the reception of amplitude modulation over the same medium.
1959 Proc. IRE 47 63/2 By making use of geometrical variations of the basic toroidal core shape, multiaperture or multipath logic devices can be designed.
1966 Electronics 3 Oct. 174 There are three vhf propagation problems that must be considered in designing the Aerocom satellite: fading caused by Faraday rotation, ionospheric fluctuation and sea-water multipath fades.
1974 Physics of Earth & Planetary Interiors 9 111 The detection problem is also complicated by considerable multipath propagation, which is most severe at 20 sec.
1984 National Times (Austral.) 2 Nov. 46/3 Multipath problems arise when signals reflect off high buildings, sharp hills (or massive harbour bridges) and receivers have difficulty deciding which signal to accept.
1996 GPS World May 56/1 Multipath causes the code measurements to be about 100 times noisier than the carrier-phase measurements.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1936