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Jitter

A Sampling phenomenon produced when a waveform is not sampled uniformly at an interval $t$ each time, but rather at a series of slightly shifted intervals $t+\Delta t_i$ such that the average $\left\langle{\Delta t_i}\right\rangle{}=0$.

See also Ghost, Sampling




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-25