waveform
noun
wave·form
ˈwāv-ˌfȯrm 
: a usually graphic representation of the shape of a wave that indicates its characteristics (such as frequency and amplitude)
called also waveshape
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Doctor scrutinized shifts in its pulse waveform, a clue to how hard its heart was working.
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Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The Prism 3 'paper' blends digital and traditional in a thin, light, durable and low-power material controlled by driving waveform tech.
—New Atlas, 30 Jan. 2025
The researchers use their device to demonstrate a number of standard tasks for a neural network, such as classifying the shape of optical waveforms, predicting the next value in a time series given the previous values and generating images by diffusion.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2025
However, adiabatic switching does require something to generate the more complex ramping waveforms.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2025
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Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The Prism 3 'paper' blends digital and traditional in a thin, light, durable and low-power material controlled by driving waveform tech.
—New Atlas, 30 Jan. 2025
The researchers use their device to demonstrate a number of standard tasks for a neural network, such as classifying the shape of optical waveforms, predicting the next value in a time series given the previous values and generating images by diffusion.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2025
However, adiabatic switching does require something to generate the more complex ramping waveforms.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2025
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waveform
noun
wave·form
ˈwāv-ˌfȯrm
: a usually graphic representation of the shape of a wave that indicates its characteristics (as frequency and amplitude)
called also waveshape
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