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From: cdl@chiton.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.dsp
Subject: Re: Question about distortion
Message-ID: <1088@chiton.ucsd.edu>
Date: 24 May 91 16:17:40 GMT
References: <1991May23.070428.23505@funet.fi> <sjreeves.910523184324@coulomb.eng.auburn.edu>
Reply-To: cdl@chiton (Carl Lowenstein)
Organization: Marine Physical Laboratory, UCSD
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In article <1991May23.070428.23505@funet.fi> varri@cs.tut.fi (V{rri Alpo) writes:
| Harmonic distortion is nonlinear distortion characterized by the
| appearance in the output of harmonics other than the fundamental
| component when the input wave is sinusoidal.
| 
| What is the name of the distortion which does not appear at the
| harmonic frequencies of the fundamental component but at some
| other frequencies?

	Intermodulation

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