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パルス符号変調 (パルスふごうへんちょう) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

パルス符ふ号ごう変へん調ちょう

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Meanings

1

pulse-code modulation; PCM

telecommunications›

Technical term in telecommunications for digitally representing sampled analog signals.

音おん声せい信しん号ごうはパルス符ふ号ごう変

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The audio signal is digitized using pulse-code modulation.

Kanji

符token, sign, mark
号nickname, number, item
変unusual, change, strange
調tune, tone, meter

Word family

適てき応おう的てき差さ分ぶんパルス符ふ号ごう変へん調ちょう
adaptive differential pulse-code modulation; ADPCM

Etymology

Compound of パルス (pulse), 符号 (code), and 変調 (modulation), directly translating the English term 'pulse-code modulation'.