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Television

Any device used to transmit and recieve moving images, usually accompanied by sound.

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Spurious signals

Consumer electronics; Television

Undesired signal energy present at any frequency at the output of a device that was not present at the input.

Slope

Consumer electronics; Television

In CATV, it is the change in gain with respect to frequency across the bandwidth of the system.

Sine squared pulse

Consumer electronics; Television

It is a video test signal used in bandwidth limited systems to evaluate performance issues such as chrominance to luminance errors.

Signal-to-noise ratio

Consumer electronics; Television

It is the ratio measured in decibels of desired signal to undesired background noise.

Signal leakage

Consumer electronics; Television

In CATV, it is the electronic signals that escape from the confines of the closed system and into the air.

Satellite

Consumer electronics; Television

In communications, it is a spacecraft that orbits the earth to relay signals over great distances from one location to another.

Roll-off

Consumer electronics; Television

A term used to describe a steepness of loss of signal vs frequency at the passband edges of a circuit or transmission system.

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