digital signal

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1. A signal in which the original information is converted into a string of bits before being transmitted. A radio signal, for example, will be either on or off. Digital signals can be sent for long distances and suffer less interference than analog signals.

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The communications industry worldwide is in the midst of a switch to digital signals.

Sound and video can also be streamed via computer.

Sound storage in a compact disk is in digital form.

Example Sentences

And it’s true that when you click on a link from a QR code at your local pizza shop, the restaurant might use that digital signal to connect the dots with a pizza promotion you saw on Instagram.

From Washington Post

These machines take the math exercise that is a digital signal and turn it into the continuous wave that is analog.

From Washington Post

“While we have been trying our best with digital signal processing to do a really good job in Teams, we have now started using machine learning for the first time to build echo cancellation where you can truly reduce echo from all the different devices,” explains Robert Aichner, a principal program manager for intelligent conversation and communications cloud at Microsoft, in an interview with The Verge.

From The Verge

Daniel uses a digital signal to verify it’s Ludo’s bike, then calls the police, who help recover it.

From New York Times

That’s where you see us investing in CPU and DSPs — digital signal processors — and AI-processing GPU.

From The Verge