quantisation
/ˌkwɑntəˈzeɪʃən/
noun
- The process of converting a continuous range of values into a set of discrete values, often used in digital signal processing and physics.
- Quantisation is necessary to turn an analog audio signal into a digital file.
- In physics, quantisation explains why energy levels in atoms are fixed.
- The image quality suffered because of poor quantisation during compression.
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