spectral peak

collocation in English

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spectral
adjective
uk
/ˈspek.trəl/
us
/ˈspek.trəl/
coming from or seeming to be the spirit of a ...
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peak
noun[C]
uk
/piːk/
us
/piːk/
the highest, strongest, or best point, value, or level ...
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Spectral breaking is the transformation or breaking of a single dominantspectralpeakassociated with an incident pulse into two spectral peaks.
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Thespectralpeakrapidly increases as energy is extracted from the mean flow and the spectrum slowly broadens as the turbulent energy cascade is established.
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A one-way analysis of variance was run on thespectralpeakestimates.
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However, during the time one series of data samples was collected, the frequency did not change enough t o broaden thespectralpeak.
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We anticipate that this value will rise significantly (perhaps by a factor of two or more) when the entirespectralpeakis taken into account in the -plane approximation.
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The 10-micrometrespectralpeakof water vapor was absent.
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We tested our procedure for computing spectral peaks on artificial data with and without background noise.
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The spectral peaks are situated at +8.85, which is the value predicted by (30).
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Sharper spectral peaks are consistent with more uniformly maintained, periodic stepping.
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In order to emphasize the spectral peaks, a mean spectral energy density (thick line) is also calculated, by dividing the whole signal into 8 windows of 512 points.
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The spectral peaks are instrumentally sharp even when the duration of the run is doubled, and the strongest peak is four orders of magnitude above the instrumental noise.
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This is in contrast with vocoders realized using fixed-width filter banks, where spectral peaks can generally only be determined to be within the scope of a given frequency band.
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Cherenkov radiation does not have characteristic spectral peaks, as typical for fluorescence or emission spectra.
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