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From: grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.dsp
Subject: Re: Question about distortion
Message-ID: <8052@nst>
Date: 27 May 91 20:33:45 GMT
References: <1991May23.070428.23505@funet.fi> <sjreeves.910523184324@coulomb.eng.auburn.edu> <1088@chiton.ucsd.edu>
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In article <1088@chiton.ucsd.edu> cdl@chiton (Carl Lowenstein) writes:
|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
|


In the communication business, nonlinear distortion is is lumped together
under the term "Quantizing Noise". I know this is a misnomer but it is
the term used for this type of distortion.